CA: Church facing investigation for ballot collection effort

Source: SFGate

“A prominent community church in Northern California is under scrutiny for orchestrating a nonofficial ballot drop box scheme in the month leading up to the Nov. 5 presidential election. After SFGATE presented evidence of the church’s ballot-gathering activities to Tehama County’s registrar of voters, officials said they would refer the matter to the District Attorney’s Office. Calvary Chapel, in the Tehama County seat of Red Bluff, is one of the larger churches in the town of around 14,400. While serving its parishioners, the church has been quietly deploying a multifaceted influence campaign called Real Impact with the explicit mission to ‘educate, equip, and encourage Christians to have a godly influence on our society and culture.’ Real Impact originated at the Chino Hills location of Calvary Chapel in 2019 and pledges to ‘[equip] the Church to stand for righteousness in the public square.’ It has since spread to several locations across Calvary’s network of 1,800 chapels.” (11/09/24)

https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/norcal-church-ballot-collection-tehama-19901332.php