This week a political tsunami hit California politicians when Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that Reform California had successfullycollected more than 1 million valid signaturesto force aVoter ID initiativeonto 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 voters.
Reflecting this bipartisan support, nearly half of the signatures we submitted came from Independents and Democrats!
As we pivot to the passage phase of our campaign, we know California politicians will use dirty tricks to block ourbipartisan movement for Voter ID.
California politicians will shamefully inject partisan toxicity and division into the campaign. Politicians are already lying by claiming women and minorities won’t be able to vote if the initiative passes.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
