California voter-ID petition gathers 1.3 million signatures, and is set for a November vote

 by Monica Showalter

As Congress dithers on the SAVE America Act, there's no question the measure, requiring voters to present identification, and prove U.S. citizenship, is popular. Even in California.

Actually, especially in California, where a petition was held, gathering nearly twice the necessary signatures required for placement on the November ballot.

According to Fox News:

A petition to require voter ID and allow only U.S. citizens to vote has gained momentum in California and surpassed the required 875,000-signature threshold to qualify for the November ballot, the group leading the effort said.

 

According to Reform California, a nonpartisan political activism group, organizers submitted the "California Voter ID Initiative" petition to county authorities with 1.3 million signatures. The group says the petition has garnered bipartisan support, with signatures from Californians representing all walks of life and political persuasions across all 58 of the state’s counties.

Reform California believes the measure has a solid path to passage in November, citing polls showing 71% of Californians favor the initiative. If passed, 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.

Which puts California's ruling Democrat elite on the spot, given that they oppose it with a fanatic intensity. Why would they be so against it? The question is brought up again and again.

This isn't just because these state ruling elites moved heaven and earth to stop conservative surfer town Huntington Beach from enacting a local measure for voter identification into its city charter.

We all know the answer -- because zero voter identification makes it easier for Democrats, who have their hands on all the mechanisms of the vote-counting process, to cheat.

Dirty voter rolls, junk mail ballots, duplicate ballots mailed to the same address, automatic motor-voter registration done on the honor system by people who cannot speak the language of this country as they obtain their trucker licenses, ballot-harvesting by political machine operatives and illegal aliens, illegal aliens counting ballots, mail votes where the voter choice can be read before the envelope is opened, and two-month vote-counting all are legal in this state, suggesting a system where cheats can and do flourish.

Even Democrat voters don't like it as a large proportion of the signatures gathered were Democrats and independents.

I signed it; I consider it the most essential issue of our democracy, because if you don't have free and fair elections, you don't have anything resembling a democracy. I don't trust how elections are done in California, not one bit. Up until now, this has been a matter of indifference to the 'hain't I got the power' ruling Democrats, but a voter petition of this magnitude is going to draw their attention, because it will be hard for them to stop. 

They're play the racist bait card, despite many black voters being onboard for this, and they'll try to claim the signatures are invalid, same as Hugo Chavez once did when Maria Corina Machado and other Venezuelans presented a petition for his recall in a referendum in 2004. 

But it's not going to be easy to succeed with numbers like this.

It's as if the people have risen up because neither Congress, nor the statehouse have.

We know they will try to legislate and lawfare the measure out of existence, but every effort to squelch this big wave only exposes them further. It's as if surfers of Huntington Beach have been leading all the way all along.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/california_voter_id_petition_gathers_1_3_million_signatures_and_is_set_for_a_november_vote.html