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Strickland and others who have helped lead the campaign attribute the initiative\u2019s rapid certification to Julie Luckey, mother of tech billionaire Palmer Luckey who helped seed the majority of the $10 million the campaign committee has raised in the past year.<\/p>\n
Voting rights groups say the initiative will suppress turnout among eligible voters who don\u2019t have the documents on hand, many of whom are disproportionately poor and people of color.<\/p>\n
Opponents, including the state\u2019s most powerful labor unions, plan to campaign heavily against it.<\/p>\n
Voter fraud is rare in California. However, claims of fraud and concerns about election integrity have risen since President Donald Trump touted false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.<\/p>\n
Californians broadly support voter identification at the polls but are split along ideological lines when given specific details about the ballot measure, according to a 2026 poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies<\/a>. When told the measure is meant to combat voter fraud and that it could suppress eligible votes, support dipped to 37%.<\/p>\n This article was originally published on CalMatters<\/a> and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives<\/a> license.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n