“Polling overwhelmingly shows a supermajority consensus for voter ID requirements,” said a petition organizer
By Catholics for Catholics
A voter ID petition which will permit only U.S. citizens to vote is gaining traction in California, going beyond the 875,000 level, qualifying it for the November ballot, according to a group leading the effort.
According to Reform California, a nonpartisan political activism group, organizers presented the “California Voter ID Initiative” petition to county authorities with 1.3 million signatures. The group says the petition has earned bipartisan support, with signatures from Californians coming from all walks of life and political beliefs across all 58 of the state’s counties, according to Fox News.
Reform California believes the voter measure has paved the way to being passed in November, citing polls showing 71% of Californians are for the initiative. If approved, the measure would bypass the Democratic legislative supermajority and amend the state constitution to require voter ID when casting a ballot, require election officials to verify the citizenship of registered voters and require the state to maintain accurate voter rolls.
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“Polling overwhelmingly shows a supermajority consensus for voter ID requirements,” said state Assembly Member Carl DeMaio, a Republican who serves as chair of Reform California.
“It’s common sense,” DeMaio said. “If you need an ID to board an airplane or buy a pack of cigarettes or buy a case of beer, you should make it pretty easy to use an ID to vote in an election. This is not hard, it’s not rocket science, it’s quite simple.”
In a press release announcing the signatures would be submitted, DeMaio framed the California Voter ID Initiative as “a common-sense and bipartisan way to restore the trust and confidence all voters should have in our election system.”
DeMaio said that almost half of the 1.35 million signatures were culled from Democrats and independents. Nevertheless, DeMaio forecasted that “divisive politicians with partisan agendas will try to politicize this effort.”
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