California’s Voter ID Initiative Goes National

California’s Voter ID initiative goes national

Proposition 39, which leads in polls, is part of a national push to require that voters provide proof that they’re eligible to vote .

California Bucks National Trend As Voter ID Initiative Faces Uphill Fight

By FRED LUCAS, The Daily Signal | August 19, 2026 Current polling shows a voter ID ballot measure could be headed for defeat in California even as the policy is overwhelmingly popular nationwide. A Berkeley University Institute for Governmental Studies poll shows that a slim majority of Californians, 51%, oppose Proposition 39, a ballot measure to adopt voter ID. Just 42% support it, still leaving a sizeable number of undecided voters.Though som…

California's Voter ID initiative goes national

This story was originally published by Capitol Weekly. If it wasn’t before, a California initiative to tighten voting requirements became nationalized when Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein, one of President Donald J. Trump’s large donors, contributed $6.5 million to the Yes-on-Proposition 39 campaign. Uihlein donated $4 million in December, ensuring that Proposition 39’s backers had sufficient money to gather enough signatures of registered …