Speaker 1: In California's mid term twenty twenty six election, voters are
Speaker 1: going to be asked to vote on Proposition thirty nine
Speaker 1: for voter ID. But coming up, I have to warn
Speaker 1: you the politicians have slapped a deceptive and false and
Speaker 1: biased title on Prop thirty nine, and we're going to
Speaker 1: need your help to spread the truth so voters know
Speaker 1: what they're voting on with Proposition thirty nine. A simple
Speaker 1: explainer on what the measure does coming up. I'm Carl Tomio,
Speaker 1: chairman who Perform California and a California State representative, and
Speaker 1: before I get on with Prop thirty nine, it's the
Speaker 1: most important measure on the ballot for voter ID, I
Speaker 1: want to invite you to check out our full plain
Speaker 1: English voter guide with simple descriptions on all the measures
Speaker 1: on your ballot, both state and local. Go to website
Speaker 1: election Guide California dot org. Election Guide California dot org.
Speaker 1: There you will find a county by county voter guide,
Speaker 1: So look at the county that you live in and
Speaker 1: every measure on your ballot. The fourteen statewide measures any
Speaker 1: local ballot measures on your ballot will be described in
Speaker 1: simple to understand, plain English terms. As we're about to
Speaker 1: discover with Prop thirty nine's manipulative and false title, politicians
Speaker 1: are trying to manipulate your vote on a number of
Speaker 1: ballot measures. So we want to make sure you get
Speaker 1: a plan English description of every measure local and state
Speaker 1: on your ballot. Also, a lot of voters are frustrated
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of information about candidates running
Speaker 1: for races on their ballot, whether that's judge, or school
Speaker 1: board or city council. Well, guess what. At election guide
Speaker 1: California dot org. For all the local races on your ballot,
Speaker 1: we cover candidate endorsements. We only endorse the common sense,
Speaker 1: reform minded, tax fighting candidates for each office. Lord knows
Speaker 1: we already have enough far left wing tics running the
Speaker 1: state of California, So check out the candidate endorsements at
Speaker 1: election guide California dot org. Let's talk about Prop thirty
Speaker 1: nine now, full disclosure, I am a co author of
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine. This is I think the most important
Speaker 1: ballot measure we've had in California in decades. It's certainly
Speaker 1: the most important measure on the ballot this November. The
Speaker 1: problem is Prop thirty nine has a false and biased
Speaker 1: ballot title. So let me walk you through what Prop
Speaker 1: thirty nine actually does. Prop thirty nine is the bipartisan
Speaker 1: solution to voter id in this country. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of debate, a lot of conspiracy theories, I'll admit
Speaker 1: about voting. But as a result of the partisan bickering
Speaker 1: and back and forth and conspiracy theories unfounded in many cases,
Speaker 1: and the weak practices, the documented weak practices in how
Speaker 1: we conduct elections, public trust and confidence in our elections
Speaker 1: has fallen to an all time loan. Here in California.
Speaker 1: You see, San Diego has put out a report showing
Speaker 1: that in just the last two years, Democrats have seen
Speaker 1: a drop Democrat voters a drop by seventeen percent in
Speaker 1: their trust in elections. Republicans have had a similar drop,
Speaker 1: Independence a similar drop. So this is not a part
Speaker 1: ofsan issue. As people look at what's going on in
Speaker 1: these elections, they're concerned that things are not being done
Speaker 1: as good as they could be. We have in California
Speaker 1: outdated voter roles because the politicians do not allow the
Speaker 1: county registrars or voters to clean up their voter roles
Speaker 1: and use data sharing and databases to take someone off
Speaker 1: the voter list when they move out to another state.
Speaker 1: That's very difficult, if not impossible right now, so a
Speaker 1: lot of orphan ballots are mailed out using an outdated
Speaker 1: voter list. We do not do proper citizenship verification. We
Speaker 1: just take people out their word. That's not sufficient. And finally,
Speaker 1: we do no identification verification of people returning ballots. What
Speaker 1: Proposition thirty nine does is it takes a bipartisan approach
Speaker 1: to how we fix these problems. Now in Washington, there's
Speaker 1: the Save Act. Prop thirty nine is actually not the
Speaker 1: Save Act. Prop. Thirty nine takes a more balanced approach.
Speaker 1: We sat down with Democratic voters, independent voters, and Republican
Speaker 1: voters and we asked them in focus groups a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago, what would make you more confident,
Speaker 1: what would allow you to trust elections with more confidence?
Speaker 1: And they told us, Hey, we think we should have
Speaker 1: citizenship verification. We think we should audit the voter roles
Speaker 1: and make sure that government officials have the best databases
Speaker 1: they can to verify when someone moves out of the state.
Speaker 1: We think we should have voter ID. Democrats support voter
Speaker 1: IDEA majority of Democrats, a super majority of Independence and Republicans.
Speaker 1: What we also heard, this is why we're different than
Speaker 1: the same act, is that California voters, Democrats, Independence, and
Speaker 1: as even Republicans, they like the convenience of mail in ballots,
Speaker 1: so they don't want to ban mail in ballots. They
Speaker 1: just want to know that the mail in ballots that
Speaker 1: are returned are verified legitimate voters. Prop thirty nine takes
Speaker 1: a bipartisan, balanced approach to doing all of this. This
Speaker 1: is why Democrat politicians and Sacramento don't like it, and
Speaker 1: they're like, we can't have this solved because we kind
Speaker 1: of like the back and forth, and of course Republicans
Speaker 1: in DC, well they're just you know, they're not going
Speaker 1: to do anything of value or merit, So we have
Speaker 1: to do this as voters. One point five million people
Speaker 1: signed the initiative to put this on the ballot. Almost
Speaker 1: half the signatures came from Democrats and Independence. What is
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine required? First, it requires that every election
Speaker 1: office in the state of California use all databases necessary
Speaker 1: to clean up its voter roles, and that we audit
Speaker 1: the voter rolls every two years before an election is
Speaker 1: done to make sure that they're doing the job right.
Speaker 1: Pretty simple. Give the tools to the election officers to
Speaker 1: clean up the voter roles, and then make sure they're
Speaker 1: doing their job right with an independent audit. Second, we
Speaker 1: require citizenship verification that when someone registers to vote, the
Speaker 1: election office should use government databases to verify if they're
Speaker 1: a citizen, and when they find that someone is not
Speaker 1: a citizen, that they can remove that person from the
Speaker 1: voter roles. We do not add any burdens to voters
Speaker 1: the citizenship verification. It's all done on the side of
Speaker 1: the government officials. Because you don't need to ask someone
Speaker 1: for a marriage license or extra documentation. These databases already
Speaker 1: have the information that we need to clean up the
Speaker 1: non citizens from the voter rules. No more burdens for voters. Third,
Speaker 1: when people vote in person, they would present an ID
Speaker 1: or mail in ballot. They would use the last four
Speaker 1: digits of a government ID, not social Security if they
Speaker 1: don't want to use social Security. The opponents of voter
Speaker 1: ID are claiming falsely that it requires a photo a
Speaker 1: social Security number, and that would, you know, potentially make
Speaker 1: people uncomfortable because of identity theft. That's not what prop
Speaker 1: thirty nine requires It says you can use one of
Speaker 1: many government IDs for verifying that you are indeed the
Speaker 1: person you are. Could be a driver's license, could be
Speaker 1: a voter ID card. We actually allow for a free
Speaker 1: voter ID card to be provided a passport number, but
Speaker 1: last four digits like your PIN for your bank card,
Speaker 1: that in essence will become your driver's license. Last four
Speaker 1: digits for how you vote. Identity theft is not a
Speaker 1: risk through Prop thirty nine, but of course to the
Speaker 1: opponents are trying to scare people. It's very simple, common
Speaker 1: sense and bipartisan. That is why the politicians change the
Speaker 1: title of Prop thirty nine. This is so deceptive, This
Speaker 1: is absolutely corrupt. Originally Prop thirty nine's ballot title was
Speaker 1: requires voter identification and citizenship verification in elections. Pretty fair,
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. The new title prohibits citizens from voting is
Speaker 1: the first four words. That is not true at all.
Speaker 1: It is intentionally trying to manipulate and bias voters against
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine. Shameful, corrupt. They're trying to put their
Speaker 1: thumb on the scale to rig the vote against Prop
Speaker 1: thirty nine because these politicians don't want to restore public
Speaker 1: trust and confidence in these elections. They know that if
Speaker 1: it were a fair election, even Democrats would vote for
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine if they knew what they were voting on.
Speaker 1: So we need your help. Like this video and share
Speaker 1: it because we cannot let that false title fool voters
Speaker 1: or discourage them from voting for something that they actually support.
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Speaker 1: was voter guide at election guide California dot org. Election
Speaker 1: Guide California dot org. Vote yes on Prop thirty nine
Speaker 1: for common sense bipartisan solutions for voter id to restore
Speaker 1: public trust and confidence in our elections. Until next time,
Speaker 1: I'm Carl Demio, Chairman of Reform California and at California
Speaker 1: State Representative. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed
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