{"id":353767,"date":"2026-06-09T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:53:07","slug":"steve-hilton-calls-for-election-reform-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353767\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Hilton calls for election reform in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate for California governor, called for immediate action on election reform, adding that it takes way too long to tally results.<\/p>\n<p>He stood outside the Norwalk office of the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk with his colleagues. He said he thinks the state should issue free voter IDs to all registered voters, and that people who vote in-person should be required to show an ID. He added that mail-in ballots should be mailed in early so that they are received by Election Day. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had voter ID, we wouldn&#8217;t need all this endless checking of signatures and verification &#8211; all the things that they say take all this time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He added that while the votes should be counted quickly, \u201cwe also need to make sure we have a system people have confidence in.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hilton also called on Democratic candidate for governor Xavier Becerra to join him in calling for voter ID. <\/p>\n<p>Follow KNX News 1070 AM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNXnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate for California governor, called for immediate action on election reform, adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-353767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353767","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=353767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}