On Jan. 1, California’s new anti-election integrity law went into effect, prohibiting local governments in the Golden State from requiring voters to show identification to cast ballots in elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the restrictive legislation into law a little more than a month before November’s historic presidential election. It’s certainly not the first time the far-left governor with higher political aspirations has been on the wrong side of American sentiment. A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that more than three-quarters of likely U.S.

A ballot is dropped off at City Hall in Cottonwood Heights on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Major election reform bills advanced to a floor vote in the Utah House of Representatives on Tuesday seeking to transform how Utahns vote and how the state keeps track of who can vote. The bills form the core of House Republicans’ response to a pair of legislative audits released at the end of 2024 that identified points of concern with signature verification and voter roll cleanup in the state’s vote-by-mail system. House Majority Whip...

Though signatures still need to be verified, it appears Maine voters will decide two initiated referendum questions this year, one on voting and the other on firearms safety. Both petition drives were organized for the right reason: to provide the people a voice when the Legislature has failed to act. Too often, referendum campaigns involve questions later found to be unconstitutional, in whole or in part, or, as in the case of the 2023 “right to repair” cars and trucks petition, trade disputes masquerading as consumer issues. The first question...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is keeping the door open to conditioning California disaster aid on the state enacting voter identification laws, days after President Trump said he wanted to link the two priorities. The comments from Johnson came during a press conference at Trump National Doral in Miami on Monday, which served as the kickoff event for the House GOP’s annual retreat. Asked if linking voter ID to California disaster aid was a “red line,” Johnson stopped short, but signaled that he was open to combining the two matters. “We’ve...

DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested Monday that he is open to conditioning California wildfire aid on forcing the state to embrace voter ID laws. President Donald Trump floated the idea on Friday, the same day he visited flame-ravaged Los Angeles. Johnson said he had not spoken with Trump personally about the issue yet but criticized the progressive stronghold's handling of elections and other policy decisions that led to the fire. "Listen, there are a lot of issues going on in California, and we have been lamenting the...

Wisconsin, one of the seven presidential battlegrounds states, could become one of just a handful of states to have voter ID requirements enshrined in its state constitution. A total of 36 states have some form of ID requirement to vote, although only 22 require photo IDs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, only a few states have it in their constitution. In 2011, Mississippi adopted it in the state constitution, and Arkansas and Nebraska passed similar constitutional amendments in the following years. Nevada—also a battleground state—was the...

President Donald Trump highlighted voter identification (ID) laws as a chief concern in California, naming it as one of the two possible conditions he might ask of the state before releasing much-needed disaster relief amid the ongoing wildfires. Newsweek reached out to the White House and California Governor Gavin Newsom's office for comment by email on Saturday. Voter ID laws remain a contentious issue across the United States, with inconsistent levels of requirements from state-to-state.