{"id":284416,"date":"2026-04-24T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:47:09","slug":"california-voter-id-initiative-heads-to-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284416\/","title":{"rendered":"California voter ID initiative heads to November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

An initiative that would beef up ID and proof of citizenship requirements for California voters has submitted enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.<\/p>\n

The measure will change the California constitution to require ID when casting a ballot and for election officials to verify citizenship of registered voters<\/a> \u2014 and its chief proponent, Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, has launched an \u201caggressive\u201d campaign to pass the law, according to a press release. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe California Voter ID Initiative is a common-sense and bipartisan way to restore the trust and confidence all voters should have in our election system,\u201d DeMaio said in a statement Friday. <\/p>\n

The campaign filed more than 962,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot, Secretary of State Shirley Weber said Friday. <\/p>\n

\"Rep.Voter ID advocates call it a \u201ccommon sense\u201d reform. MediaNews Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Voting rights groups have opposed the measure<\/a>, claiming it will restrict ballot access and add hurdles to voter participation. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis initiative isn\u2019t about election security, it\u2019s about erecting barriers that will keep eligible Californians from exercising their fundamental right to vote as citizens,\u201d said Abdi Soltani, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California, in a statement opposing the voter ID measure. <\/p>\n

However, DeMaio \u2014 whose group Reform California launched the voter ID effort \u2014 said most voters, even Democrats, support voter ID requirements. <\/p>\n

He claimed \u201cnearly half of the 1.35 million signatures we collected to put this common-sense reform on the ballot came from Democrats and Independents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An initiative that would beef up ID and proof of citizenship requirements for California voters has submitted enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13,3586,26296,76275],"class_list":{"0":"post-284416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-us-news","13":"tag-voter-fraud","14":"tag-voter-id-law"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284416","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=284416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}