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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is taking the City of Huntington Beach to court, after voters there last month passed a charter amendment requiring voter ID in local elections.
Voter ID laws go back to 1950, when South Carolina became the first state to start requesting identification from voters at the polls. The identification document did not have to include a picture; any document with the name of the voter sufficed. In 1970, Hawaii joined in requiring ID, and Texas a year later.
Min pointed to the success of California’s COVID-19 motivated push for universal mail-in ballots, and that proponents of voter ID laws have not produced any evidence of voter fraud.
California officials on Monday sued Huntington Beach over a new law that lets the city require voters to provide identification to cast ballots at the polls starting in 2026. State Attorney ...
Texas passes one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country, but it is blocked by the courts. [28] 2013. Supreme Court ruled in the 5–4 Shelby County v. Holder decision that Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 4(b) stated that if states or local governments want to change their voting laws, they must ...
India. The Indian voter ID card is an identity document issued by the Election Commission of India to adult domiciles of India who have reached the age of 18, which primarily serves as identity proof for Indian citizens while casting their ballot in the country's municipal, state, and national elections.
The voter ID measure "is really a solution looking for a problem," Weber said. A Huntington Beach resident sued in November to block the voter ID measure. The ACLU of Southern California and ...
Studies exploring the disparate impacts of voter id laws have reached mixed conclusions. A 2019 paper by University of Bologna and Harvard Business School economists found that voter ID laws had "no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation."