Republicans are accusing California’s Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta of “rigging” the 2026 election voter ID ballot initiative after he made a sneaky change to the measure’s wording.
Proposition 39 made its way to California’s 2026 ballot, which would require voters to prove citizenship when registering to vote.
When grassroots organizers were gathering signatures last year, Rob Bonta issued a title and bullet points to describe the initiative.
However, with just months to go until the November election, Bonta made radical changes to the ballot initiative’s title and wording in an effort to destroy the measure.
Republican California Assemblyman and chairman of Reform California, Carl DeMaio, said the title change could sway voters.
“The ballot title is being manipulated to try to encourage people to vote no, to scare voters away. They’re trying to falsely claim that citizens would be prohibited from voting,” Carl DeMaio said on Wednesday.
“It is so illegitimate. It is so corrupt. It is so dishonest what this attorney general has decided to do, because he does not support this initiative,” DeMaio said.
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