{"id":518060,"date":"2026-11-04T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518060\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:10:13","slug":"staffer-for-supervisor-katrina-foley-accused-by-oc-republicans-of-electioneering-at-uci-polling-site-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518060\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffer for Supervisor Katrina Foley accused by OC Republicans of \u2018electioneering\u2019 at UCI polling site \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of a staff member for Supervisor Katrina Foley interacting with voters at a UC Irvine polling site sparked furor from Orange County Republicans, who accused the staffer Tuesday of violating election law against campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe @OCRegistrar needs to take immediate action,\u201d the OC Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ocgop\/status\/2117790664041890182?s=42\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a> at around 5.30 p.m. \u201cA staffer for candidate Katrina Foley is approaching and talking to voters in line at UCI and claiming that he\u2019s acting as an employee of the County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is some rank, bush league cheating by @KatrinaFoley,\u201d OCGOP wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The post included a photo of the staffer\u2019s ID and another showing him speaking to voters.<\/p>\n<p>OC Registrar of Voters Bob Page said he received OCGOP\u2019s report and is working on addressing it.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that county election law prohibits explicit political activity within 100 feet of a polling site, including displaying campaign signs and literature, soliciting votes or speaking to voters about ballot marking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/11\/03\/election-results-oc-board-of-supervisors-districts-4-and-5-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Foley is running for re-election in District 5 against Assemblymember Diane Dixon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Napuri, Foley\u2019s deputy chief of staff, said the staffer was at the polling site only to provide information to voters about where to line up, how to register and cast a ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not campaigning in any shape or form,\u201d Napuri said. \u201cHe\u2019s not telling people to vote for Katrina Foley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Napuri said the campaign decided to remove the staffer from the polling site for his own safety after the OCGOP doxed his identity online.<\/p>\n<p>County spokesperson Molly Nichelson said the CEO\u2019s office is aware of the situation with the staffer but did not confirm whether the office took any action.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: The story was updated to clarify the staff member\u2019s role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of a staff member for Supervisor Katrina Foley interacting with voters at a UC Irvine polling site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1400,163,165,164,23,136],"class_list":["post-518060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2026-elections","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-local-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}