Jan. 21, 2025
Why I think Huntington Beach's Voter ID law will be upheld
Despite efforts by Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber to overturn Huntington Beach's voter identification law, the city may prevail due to its authority as a charter city to manage its own elections.
James V. Lacy
James V. Lacy served as general counsel of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission during the Reagan Administration. He is a conservative public interest and election lawyer and pundit based in Orange County. You can follow him on X @JamesVLacy1
Try as they might to undo Huntington Beach's efforts to establish a voter identification verification law, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber may lose the case on the merits, and in no small part because of a case precedent established in a matter I lost in the 1st District Court of Appeal in 2023, in Lacy vs. City of San Francisco, 94 Cal.App.5th 238 (2023).
Measure A is a charter amendment that...
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