California's Prohibition Against Photo ID Requirements for Voting is Unconstitutional

Gavin Newsom approved legislation -- SB 1174 -- to outlaw such measures throughout the state.

In March of this year, voters residing in Huntington Beach, California approved a measure requiring voters to show ID prior to casting a ballot.

In Section 1, at (a)(2), it states that such requirement for ID is not necessary because, when registering to vote, California already requires adequate identification -- “a driver’s license number, a California identification number, or the last four digits of their social security number.” (Note that California does not require an ID itself -- which, in two of the alternatives, would include photos -- but only the “number.”) Later in the section, at (a)(4), California goes on to assert: “Voter identification laws have historically been used to disenfranchise low-income voters, voters of color, voters with disabilities, and senior voters.” In passing, we may ask how Newsom and his colleagues know that the supporters of such ID laws had such a nefarious purpose, and not the one they said they had -- that is, to ensure the integrity of the election?

In short, under this provision, SB 1174 is not simply contradictory in its own terms, but is unconstitutional.

The rationale for the prohibition of such identification of voters is stated in the legislation itself.

To put it another way, if persons are required to produce one of three identification numbers for registration, how can requiring them to produce, when voting, the same identification number, but (for the driver’s license or state ID) with a photo -- how does that somehow become a nefarious scheme to disenfranchise voters?

Which means that California can implement it in any way it chooses to do so.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/california_s_prohibition_against_photo_id_requirements_for_voting_is_unconstitutional.html