From 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.
“Polling overwhelmingly shows a supermajority consensus for voter ID requirements,” said state Assembly Member Carl DeMaio, a Republican who serves as chair of Reform California.
This isn’t a political issue, it’s a common sense issue, according to DeMaio, who said nearly half of the 1.35 million signatures came from Democrats and independents.
“If you need an ID to board an airplane or buy a pack of cigarettes or buy a case of beer, you should make it pretty easy to use an ID to vote in an election. This is not hard, it’s not rocket science, it’s quite simple,” he declared.
Liberal opponent are still claiming that the push for voter ID is designed to suppress voters. Two officials from the ACLU in California wildly claimed that voter ID would “keep eligible Californians from voting.”
The report points to a statement on an information sheet by the California secretary of state’s office which reads, “California does not generally require voters to show identification at the polls.”
“TOTAL HYPOCRISY! CA Democrats passed a law making it illegal to ask for an ID to vote, but yesterday I was required to show PHOTO ID to submit 1.35 million signatures on an initiative to put the Voter ID Initiative on the ballot! Join the fight at VoterIDInitiative.com,” DeMaio announced Wednesday.
TOTAL HYPOCRISY! CA Democrats passed a law making it illegal to ask for an ID to vote, but yesterday I was required to show PHOTO ID to submit 1.35 million signatures on an initiative to put the Voter ID Initiative on the ballot! Join the fight at https://t.co/TFn2RnSajd pic.twitter.com/NPIScpATVy
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) March 4, 2026
WATCH BELOW:
1.35M Signatures! Yesterday and today in each of the 58 counties in California, we are turning in signatures to force a vote on the CA Voter ID Initiative! We got it on the ballot, but now we need to PASS IT! Join the fight at https://t.co/TFn2RnSajd pic.twitter.com/1HzY1yjMjW
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) March 3, 2026
Thanks to our many volunteers, the Voter ID and Save Prop 13 citizens’ initiatives will be on the ballot this November. We hit Sacramento with 2.7 MILLION signatures to bring these much needed reforms to a vote, but the fight isn’t over yet – WATCH! https://t.co/7Z9WMCdY3d
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) March 4, 2026
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