Voters in Huntington Beach, California, passed a ballot measure implementing a voter ID requirement for local elections, according to preliminary election results.
Huntington Beach Measure A amends the city charter by authorizing the local government to require electors provide identification in order to vote in municipal elections. The measure — which wouldn’t take effect until 2026 — also allows the city to “provide more in-person voting locations” and “monitor ballot drop-boxes.”
The measure appeared on Huntington Beach’s ballot during California’s 2024 presidential primary elections last week.
While the count has not been finalized due to the Golden State’s chaotic and insecure mail-in voting system, preliminary election results indicate Measure A’s passage, and its opponents have “conceded defeat,” according to LAist. As of this article’s publication, the Los Angeles Times showed 53.9 percent of electors voted in favor of the amendment and 46.1 percent voted against. Voters also appear to have passed a separate ballot measure limiting which type of flags Huntington Beach is permitted to fly on city property, which would effectively bar LGBT “pride” flags from being flown on public buildings without a unanimous vote of the city council.
The Huntington Beach City Council proposed both amendments.
Naturally, the approval of both measures has generated outcry from America’s leftist media. On Thursday, The Washington Post lamented the supposedly “divisive campaign” to pass the measures and their subsequent passage as further indication that Huntington Beach is “on [a] MAGA path.” The outlet also laughably claimed the
