Thou shalt not check the ID of a person showing up to vote.
California lawmakers — apparently eager to help noncitizens vote — have banned local voter ID laws like that of Huntington Beach.
Attorney General Rob Bonta says that requiring ID to vote “flies in the face” of the principle that “the right to cast your vote is the foundation of our democracy.”
But Huntington Beach didn’t impair “the right to cast your vote.”
Opponents of ID requirements say that the problem is the terrible hardship of presenting a valid ID or perhaps of obtaining one. These may be chores, but they’re hardly ventures into the unknown. If you’re a citizen, you can get ID showing you are. And almost everyone is capable of pulling an ID out of a pocket and displaying it.
Here’s a tell: “An amendment to Senate Bill 1174 that would have explicitly banned illegal migrants from voting was rejected.”
Is there evidence of fraud in American elections?
Is it major — not a marginal issue having to do with one or two wayward ballots per decade?
Could lawmakers like California State Senator Dave Min, who asserts that “voter ID laws only subvert voter turnout,” be wrong?
Yes.
The evidence can be found in John Fund’s books, such as Our Broken Elections, Stealing Elections, and Who’s Counting? A more recent report of attempts to undermine the vote and prevent the same is Elizabeth Nickson’s article “The 2024 Cheat and What’s Being Done About It.”
Voter IDs don’t subvert voter turnout, they subvert fraudulent voter turnout.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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