California AG slammed for defending language change on voter ID ballot after 'rigging' allegations
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is facing outrage for defending his rewording of ballot language for the state’s voter ID law.
The Democrat has been accused of a misleading, last-minute change to the description of Proposition 39, which would require voters to provide government ID at the polls or the last four digits of a ID number if voting by mail.
Bonta’s office defended the changes in a post on X explaining the roundly derided move.
“Fact: It is common for ballot titles and summaries to change from the circulating version to the version voters see on the ballot. California law expressly allows these changes to provide further clarity for voters,” he wrote, adding that “all nine voter-proposed initiatives” on the ballot were edited.
“California DOJ takes seriously its responsibility to provide accurate and impartial information to inform voters.”
In original description , Prop 39 was described as a measure that “establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.” But after the voter ID proposal qualified for the November ballot, Bonta changed it to say that it “prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”
“Seems the rewording is a violation — your rewording was not impartial and is likely to create prejudice,” one X user replied to Bonta’s post.
“Rob Bonta you are a complete fraud. This is so dishonest. Your changes totally distort what the voter id proposition is set to do,” another added.
“You are attempting to manipulate the vote by changing the perception of the bill from its intended purpose because you know you would lose otherwise,” wrote Brian Ralston, a Los Angeles composer. “Thus you are a dangerous, manipulative, ideological, traitorous clown.”
Some brought up the history of California attorneys general writing allegedly slanted descriptions of ballot measures as a reason not to trust Bonta.
For example, a past ballot proposal that would let voters repeal the state’s gas taxes was instead described as a measure that “eliminates certain road repair and transportation funding.”
“Everyone was confused by repeal of 2017 gas tax prop, maybe you guys SUCK at rewrites and shouldn’t do it,” wrote user Amanda Sereno.
The blowback comes as backers of Prop 39 float the idea of a lawsuit to challenge Bonta, though such a challenge is unlikely to be successful considering that courts have mostly sided with the attorney general’s discretion on ballot measures in past cases.
“We cannot allow this corruption to happen without putting up a fight!” declared Reform California, the organization behind Prop 39, in a fundraising pitch on Friday.
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Even though every poll shows a majority of Republican and democrat voters in favor of voter ID, Proposition 39 will be defeated. The CA AG has already tried to skew the language and I'm sure the state public union sector will do everything to defeat it. If by some strange chance the Proposition wins on the ballot, you can bet that a Federal Judge will step in as they often have in California ballot initiatives to rule it somehow unconstitutional.
Your CDS is getting out of hand.
So is the criticism of everything leftists approve of as some sort of "DS".
pure maga projection, based upon the ambiguous language in the dementia poster boy's pass it or else bullshit save act that will die in the senate.
Wouldn't it be easier for you to say you don't want California to vote? I mean, I get it, it's a ton of electoral votes.
Actually, I'm saying that I want citizens and only citizens voting.
I mean, I get it, it's a ton of electoral votes.
And most of it is based on illegal migrant residency.
I don't know if you do get it. In every national election we see a voting map with three of the largest electoral votes already colored in blue, before a single vote is cast.
Illegal Aliens - not illegal "migrants".
A distinction without a difference?
So, out of 40 million people with 22,114,456 registered voters there are a handful of cranky people upset over semantics. No proof that they are even registered voters.
Sounds like they could be potential friends.
btw, drivers licenses for non citizens were color coded when I was a CA resident and now they are labled "Federal limits Apply" making them invalid for use in a federal election.
Permits and non citizen licenses are printed vertically for easy LEO identification of underage drivers and non cits
there's really no need to introduce facts into maga propaganda until xenophobia has been firmly established by 2 or more ... /s
Another California article? At this point, the obsession is kinda creepy.
It sounds like that’s true. What’s the problem? You don’t want people to know what the law would do?
it's a shame to waste such a nice big state with great weather on immigrants, don'tcha know, especially the non-white kind ... /s
That's exactly why they're pissed off, they don't want voters in CA to know what this Republican authored, Republican backed proposition will do. It won't do shit to stop the fantasy illegal immigrants from voting because they're already not fucking voting, so all this dick bag Prop 39 would do is make it harder for eligible Californians to vote. Californians aren't going to be fooled by this horse shit attempt to disenfranchise voters, this prop is DOA with or without the change by the AG.
It's even creepier when you realize he's never been to California.