California will appeal a judge’s decision to reject a lawsuit over a measure allowing the city of Huntington Beach to require voter identification at the polls. State officials said Thursday they plan to continue to fight over the measure in the court of appeal.
to reject a state lawsuit over a measure allowing the city of Huntington Beach to require voter identification at the polls, officials said Thursday.
State officials said they plan to continue to fight over the measure — passed by voters in March in the coastal city of 200,000 people — in the court of appeal. An Orange County Superior Court judge last month found it was too soon for the state to bring litigation over the local law, which allows the city to implement voter identification requirements in 2026.
“With preparations for the 2026 elections beginning late next year, we want and need a state appellate court to weigh in expeditiously,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.The Huntington Beach measure also lets the city increase in-person voting sites and monitor ballot drop boxes in local elections., saying the measure violates state law and could disenfranchise poor, non-white, elderly and disabled voters, and Democratic Gov.
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