California Republicans launch voter ID ballot initiative for 2026
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Republicans in California are launching an initiative that would require voters to show identification before voting.
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio is raising funds for the initiative through his grassroots organization, Reform California. offer 875,000 signatures are required to be on the ballot in 2026.
“Voter ID is about not only restoring internal controls to improve the process, but also about restoring the public’s trust and confidence in our democracy,” DeMaio told NBC Bay Area. he said.
“People have concerns about how our elections are run, and it’s hard to show and prove voter fraud because you don’t know how many votes were cast fraudulently because there are no internal checks or controls,” he said.
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Republicans in California are pushing to require voter ID through a ballot initiative. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
As of Wednesday, the petition had collected more than 300,000 signatures. The petition has 129 days to collect the remaining 575,000 signatures.
Across the US, 36 states have laws requiring voters to present some form of identification when voting on Election Day. Of those, 24 require photo identification, according to Ballotpedia.
President Donald Trump signed an election integrity executive order earlier this year requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship. However, this effort failed in the courts.
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In April, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down parts of the decision related to voter ID requirements.
US President Donald Trump is seeking to enact voter ID requirements through an executive order. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Kollar-Kotelly argued that Trump did not have the authority to issue such an order. Constitution Transfers control of election regulations to Congress and the states.
“Consistent with this allocation of power, Congress is currently considering legislation that would impact many of the changes the President purports to enact,” Clinton appointee Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her order. he wrote. “No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch would allow the President to short-circuit the deliberative process of Congress by executive order.”
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A Gallup poll just before the 2024 election found that 84% of U.S. adults favor requiring voters to show identification, and 83% support requiring proof of citizenship when registering for the first time.
