Zero Hedge:
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,
A California judge rejected the state’s attempts to shut down a conservative coastal city’s voter ID law April 7, ruling the city did not violate state elections law when voters passed the provision last year.
In his ruling early Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas denied a request by California Attorney General Rob Bonta to invalidate Huntington Beach’s charter amendment, passed in March 2024.
“There is no showing that a voter identification requirement compromises the integrity of a municipal election,” Dourbetas wrote in his decision Monday. “Municipal election results do not lack integrity because only residents of a municipality who are eligible to vote participated in the election.”
The judge also found the city’s charter amendment does not violate the right to vote and does not reduce the integrity of the electoral process.
Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates celebrated the ruling. more here
It is sad state of affairs when a judge has to rule that ensuring that only people who are eligible to vote can vote does not violate the Constitution.
it’s quite another thing to actually enforce it!
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A lot of NorCal counties tried to institute this and got threatened by the state so they backed down. I’m hoping they all move forward with this.