Alvarez, Other Local Leaders Join Campaign Against Voter ID Measure – Voice of San Diego

Alvarez, Other Local Leaders Join Campaign Against Voter ID Measure  Voice of San Diego

Opponents say Proposition 39, which would require California voters to prove identity and citizenship before voting, would disproportionately impact South County voters. Among 14 statewide propositions crowding California ballots this year, Proposition 39 has flown mostly under the radar. The voter ID measure, which would require California voters to prove their identity and American citizenship before voting, is nowhere near as widely known as breakout star Prop. 40, known as the “billionaire’s tax.” But according to a group of local leaders who gathered Tuesday for a No on Prop. 39 press conference at the Barrio Station community center in Barrio Logan, Prop. 39 should matter just as much, if not more, to California voters.

At the Tuesday event, state Assemblymember David Alvarez, along with San Diego County Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe, members of the San Diego chapter of the League of Women Voters, attorneys from the ACLU and members of other local advocacy organizations said Prop. 39 poses an existential threat to South County voters’ right to make their voices heard at the ballot box. “We know from our history what happens when people who fear justice and equality decide who gets to vote,” Montgomery Steppe said of Prop. 39. “MAGA is targeting the same people who have been denied an equal voice in our democracy for generations.” Alvarez said