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Voter ID qualifies in California: Let’s see who defends democracy

This week a political tsunami hit California politicians when Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that Reform California had successfully collected more than 1 million valid signatures to force a Voter ID initiative onto the November ballot for a public vote.

When we filed the initiative last summer, political insiders said we wouldn’t qualify because it is nearly impossible to collect the required 874,000 signatures to qualify without support from the big special interest groups that typically bankroll paid signature drives.  

But more than 18,000 volunteers stepped up to collect signatures, and a good-government coalition formed to financially support the initiative.   

I will forever be appreciative of every volunteer and contributor who came together and did the hard work of getting these signatures to force a public vote. 

Unfortunately, the very fact that we had to go through the trouble of collecting these signatures underscores how badly California’s political system is broken.  

Just as we are seeing at the federal level with the failure to advance the SAVE Act, California politicians refused to act even in the face of a bipartisan consensus in support of a Voter ID requirement. 

Every single public poll shows 70$%-80% support for a Voter ID requirement – including a majority of Democrat........

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