California Attorney General Rob Bonta was handed a humiliating loss by a county judge over election security, but the government official vowed to keep the fight going.
The decision by Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas on April 7 crushes, for now, an attempt by the state attorney general to halt a Huntington Beach voter ID ordinance.
Bonta, joined by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, stepped in after residents of Huntington Beach approved a measure requiring IDs for in-person voting.
Dourbetas ruled that the ID requirement would not disenfranchise future voters.
“There is no showing that a voter identification requirement compromises the integrity of a municipal election,” the judge wrote, according to The Orange County Register.
Despite losing to the charter city in
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