California voters will have a chance to choose to require voter identification for future elections, and you can be assured that California Democrats will do everything they can to sabotage that system every step of the way.
A ballot proposition proposal led by state Republicans has secured enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Should the proposition pass, it would amend the California Constitution to require voters to present a government-issued ID at polling places or (more notably in mail ballot-heavy California) provide the last four digits of that ID on their mail-in ballot.
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It has been just a few months since the California Supreme Court banned localities from even imposing voter ID for their local elections, striking down Huntington Beach’s voter ID requirement for city elections. California’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta, and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, were among the state Democrats cheering this decision. As Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, requiring voters to prove that they are who they say they are is “voter suppression” and “disenfranchises” voters, despite Georgia proving that is not the case, and despite even Democrats supporting voter ID requirements in polls.
State Democrats are going to do all they can to stop this, and the first step in that is writing the proposition in such a way as to purposefully mislead voters about what it will do. In 2018, California’s gas tax was unpopular, and repeal through a ballot proposition seemed likely. But then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra described the repeal like this: “Eliminates Recently Enacted Road Repair and Transportation Funding by Repealing Revenues Dedicated For Those Purposes. Requires Any Measure to Enact Certain Vehicle Fuel Taxes and Vehicle Fees Be Submitted to and Approved By the Electorate.”
Eliminates transportation funding? That was enough to swing the vote on gas tax repeal, from 50% to 46% support in polling to 57% to 43% opposition at the ballot box.
Bonta has shown that he is also willing to lie to voters about what they are voting on. A 2024 ballot proposal designed to keep boys out of girls sports and force schools to inform parents if their children are alternatively identifying themselves at schools ultimately did not get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, but Bonta had a perfect name picked out for it to present to voters if it had: The “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth Initiative.”
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You can have no doubt that Bonta is already brainstorming how to sabotage the voter ID ballot proposition now. Perhaps he will describe it as “restricting who can participate in California elections,” or some such nonsense. Whatever he chooses, he will no doubt do his best to help California Democrats fend off voter ID, even if it means lying to voters about the proposition itself, because that is just what California Democrats do.