More than 500,000 Californians demand voting overhaul, back ‘straightforward’ ID law
FIRST ON FOX: More than 500,000 California voters have signed a petition to amend the state's constitution to enforce voter ID laws for all elections, leaders of a coalition called...
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FIRST ON FOX: More than 500,000 California voters have signed a petition to amend the state's constitution to enforce voter ID laws for all elections , leaders of a coalition called Californians for Voter ID told Fox News Digital. "We had a dog that voted in the last couple elections in Costa Mesa," Republican California state Sen. Tony Strickland told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday phone interview of California's persistent voter integrity concerns. "We don't clean up our voter rolls. There are so many times where people move, college kids go out of state, or people move and they don't clean up the voter rolls. And we mail out to everybody, and so you have a lot of live ballots with ballot harvesting." "Our initiative will now clean up the voter rolls throughout the state," he added. Strickland, who represents a district that includes portions of Orange and Los Angeles counties along the Southern California coast, is helping lead the charge to collect more than one million petition signatures from California voters in order to force the issue on the ballot for the 2026 election. The signature collection kicked off Oct. 1, meaning the group collected support from more than half-a-million voters in a one-month span. CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS LAUNCH VOTER ID BALLOT PUSH, NEED 875K SIGNATURES BY DEADLINE The Californians for Voter ID initiative specifically would amend California's constitution and require voters to present government-issued IDs before casting a ballot in all future elections in the state. California voters would be required to present a government-issued ID before voting in-person, or provide the last four-digits of a government ID if voting by mail. Election officials, under the initiative, would be required to verify a voter's citizenship to ensure only legal residents register to vote or receive ballots. Democrats historically have opposed voter ID laws over claims it disenfranchises minority voters, while conservatives argue it will ensure only leg…