Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk slammed a new California law Friday that aims to prohibit local authorities from requiring photo identification (ID) when voting, saying that it had been passed “to make voting fraud unprovable.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed the law in September.
The law was partly a reaction to an attempt by the City of Huntingon Beach, one of the last conservative bastions in California, to require voter ID in the 2024 election. Voters in the city passed Measure 1, requiring voter ID, in March 2024, but it does not take effect until 2026. The law, SB 1174, includes a finding that voting is “a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair,” and therefore outside Huntington Beach’s jurisdiction as a charter city.
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