California voters will be asked whether they want to tighten the identification and verification rules for voters.<\/p>\n
The California Secretary of the State office confirmed Friday that the proposal was qualified for the Nov. 3 ballot. The measure seeks voter approval so people will be required to present government-issued identification at the polls or provide identifying information when voting by mail. <\/p>\n
If passed, the state government will have to issue voter identification cards upon request and track citizenship verification rates for every election.<\/p>\n
To qualify, the initiative needed 874,641 valid signatures, equal to 8% of votes cast in the 2022 gubernatorial election. Officials said the measure exceeded that threshold through random sampling.<\/p>\n
The proposal was expected to be formally certified for the ballot June 25 unless it is withdrawn by its proponents.<\/p>\n
\u00a0A fiscal analysis estimated one-time implementation costs in the tens of millions of dollars, with ongoing annual costs potentially reaching into the low hundreds of millions. <\/p>\n
The initiative’s proponents include state Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R- San Diego County, state Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, and Donald J. DiCostanzo, a business owner. <\/p>\n
“The 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,” DeMaio said in a statement. “Our measure simply holds government
officials accountable to maintain accurate voter lists and verify the identity of individuals casting ballots in our elections.” <\/p>\n
Voting rights advocates have criticized the measure, saying it may make it harder for some people to cast ballots and could reduce overall participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California voters will be asked whether they want to tighten the identification and verification rules for voters. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,38024],"class_list":{"0":"post-284507","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-decision-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284507","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=284507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}