CA lawmakers discuss voter ID, wildfire bills, environmental budget

(The Center Square) – This week in California, lawmakers announced that more than 1 million signatures had been collected for a voter identification ballot measure that is now one step closer to the November 2026 ballot. If the ballot measure passes, it would require voters in the Golden State to present identification at the polls when they vote. Those who vote by mail would have to write the last four digits of their identification number on their ballot from a government-issued form of identification, the measure’s advocates said this week. “All this does is it says that you need to be a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote and that you need to show a form of ID,” Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, told The Center Square in an exclusive interview before the press conference Tuesday outside the Capitol in Sacramento. “This is very simplistic. Thirty-six states have it. Every state that has implemented this has actually had higher voter part