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California voter ID isn’t racist — it’s the major game changer we need to bring about real political change

Voter ID could change politics in California and across the nation.

For decades, Democratic Party politicians have insisted — without evidence — that voter ID is racist, and unnecessary.

They kept saying it, even after the Supreme Court noted in 2008 that opponents of voter ID could not find one person who was deterred from voting because of it.

That is because the Democratic Party turnout operation relies on not having to check ID — at least not too carefully.

In California, Democrats have relied on vote-by-mail and “ballot harvesting” — a system where party activists can turn in unlimited numbers of ballots for other people.

Theoretically, these ballots have to be verified by machines that compare signatures on the envelopes to those on the voter rolls. But with millions of ballots to count, the standards for matching are lax.

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The new proposed voter ID system would keep the convenience of mail-in-ballots, but require voters to verify their ballots using the last four digits on a government ID.

That is a political game-changer that would make races across California more competitive.

California will remain a “blue” state, even after voter ID.

What many Republicans call the “margin of fraud” is........

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