Kern County implications California v. City of Huntington Beach election lawsuit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : On the necessity of voter ID, Micheli responded, "State law requires voter ID to be provided at the time of registration.
48% : "We've had experiences here in California as well as jurisdictions in other states where voter ID laws were used to suppress voter turnout," said Chris Micheli, an adjust professor of the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.
48% : That's one of the reasons why California prohibits that so we don't have different jurisdictions imposing different voter ID requirements.
47% : "[Requiring voter ID] restricts the ability for folks to potentially vote at the polls.
45% : But requiring voter ID when voting is barred by California election law.
42% : ""All the issues associated with voter rolls, dead people being on voter rolls, people that have moved out of the state, people that have moved out of the county, all those issues go away [with mandated voter ID]," said Tom Pavich, Kern County Coordinator of the California Election Integrity Project.

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