DeMaio Vows Aggressive Campaign to Pass Measure Requiring Regular Audits of Voter Rolls, Citizenship Verification and Voter ID to Cast a Ballot
The California Voter ID Initiative has officially qualified for the November 2026 ballot — with state election officials certifying today that over 1 million valid signatures were submitted by proponents of the measure.
The measure amends the California Constitution to require Voter ID when casting a ballot, require election officials to verify the citizenship of registered voters, and maintain accurate voter rolls.
Reform California Chairman and CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, the co-author of the CA Voter ID Initiative, issued the following statement in response to news that the measure has qualified:
"The California Voter ID Initiative is a common-sense and bipartisan way to restore the trust and confidence all voters should have in our election system.
Our measure simply holds government officials accountable to maintain accurate voter lists and verify the identity of individuals casting ballots in our elections. Other states that have implemented Voter ID programs have seen an increase in participation in their elections, including an increase in minority voting.
Divisive politicians with partisan agendas will try to politicize this effort, but the fact remains that over 70 percent of voters, including a majority of Democrat voters, support the initiative, and nearly half of the 1.35 million signatures we collected to put this common-sense reform on the ballot came from Democrats and Independents.
We look forward to expanding this bipartisan reform movement as we enter the passage phase of the campaign."