Election reform bills banning payments for voter registration and potentially allowing public campaign financing signed into law Wednesday | News Channel 3-12

Election reform bills banning payments for voter registration and potentially allowing public campaign financing signed into law Wednesday | News Channel 3-12

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KEYT) – Governor Newsom signed a pair of election reform bills authored by the Chair of the state's Senate Judiciary Committee into law this week. SB 398 criminalizes lotteries, cash or other prizes, and other incentives in exchange for voter registration. The new law would make those efforts a crime punishable by a fine up to $10,000, imprisonment for up to three years, or both, for any person who knowingly or willfully pays…