The California Republican Party will not comply with the cease-and-desist letter from Secretary of State Alex Padilla to stop using unofficial ballot drop boxes.

“The program you now falsely claim to be illegal is a perfect example of what you ‘proudly’ state to be permissible just last year,” lawyers for the state GOP wrote to Padilla. “Voters have decided, for themselves, that they trust the state and volunteers at their local political Party headquarters, or their church, or a business that they patronize, to securely deliver their completed VBM ballot to the appropriate election official.”