By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-02 14:01:02 | Updated at 2024-10-03 19:19:53
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Mayor of California Charter City Defies Newsom's Ban on Voter ID Laws 'That Law Does Not Apply to Us'
Western Journal ^ | October 1, 2024 | Jared Harris
Posted on 10/02/2024 6:54:11 AM PDT by george76
A California mayor is defiant after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law in direct response to the city’s attempt to secure elections.
The saga began on March 5, when Huntington Beach voters weighed in and passed ballot measure 1, the Voter ID and Election Rules Amendment.
According to Ballotpedia, the charter amendment authorized the city to require voter identification for elections and allowed infrastructure to support the initiative.
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In 2023, then-Mayor Tony Strickland supported the measure in the face of pressure from local and state Democrats seeking to torpedo it.
“Our democracy does not work if people do not have faith in the election results,” Strickland told Voice of OC. “Anytime you can put safeguards in I think it’s important to do so people have faith in our election outcomes.”
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Huntington Beach voters passed the measure with 53.4 percent approving the measure and 46.6 percent rejecting it. The increased election security was set to begin in 2026.
After the initiative passed, state legislators were quick to react to Huntington Beach voter’s approval of the measure and moved to crush it entirely.
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Unfortunately for Newsom and Co., current Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark isn’t about to quietly let Sacramento dictate the future of her city.
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The state cannot pass any laws that strip us of our constitutional rights,” Van Der Mark told LAist, “so that law does not apply to us or affect our new election laws.”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; electionfraud; electionintegrity; electionrules; fraud; gavin; newsom; riggedelection; stolenelection; votefraud; voterfraud; voterid; votingfraud
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1 posted on 10/02/2024 6:54:11 AM PDT by george76
To: george76
Good on you mayor. Sadly, you’re about to find out who is in charge.
2 posted on 10/02/2024 6:57:05 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
To: george76
Pretty much every country in the world including Canada, the UK, Australia, India, etc... Requires identification to vote. Why in the world would the worlds most identifiable free nation on earth, not require and I.D. to vote with? It’s inanity.
3 posted on 10/02/2024 6:58:54 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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