UNITED STATES Supreme Court building (Flickr/Geoff Livingston).
By Jim Tortolano
Orange County Tribune
Refusing to concede defeat, the Huntington Beach City Council acted this week to press their case on behalf of requiring voters to provide identification when casting ballots in municipal elections.
In closed session on Tuesday night, the council voted 7-0 to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s the last step in the
The California State Legislature passed a law prohibiting a voters ID requirement.
Huntington Beach civic leaders believe they are on the right side of public opinion. “Polls show that over 80 percent of the country supports the common sense idea of requiring voter ID in elections,” said Mayor Casey McKeon in a statement.
Whether the city is on the right side of the high court is another question. According to United States Reports, the official journal of the Supreme Court, fewer than 3 percent of cases submitted to to court for review are actually decided by it: about 50 a year.
The State of California and Huntington Beach have been doing legal battle over this for years. In the most recent action, the California State Supreme Court rejected Surf City’s denied review of a state appeals court ruling siding with the State of California.
“Regardless, “we are optimistic that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up this fundamental constitutional issue that voter ID does not violate the Equal Protection clause [of the Constitution],” according to McKeon.
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