Speaker 1: This week, Prop thirty nine, the California Voter ID initiative,
Speaker 1: heads to the courthouse as we defend a malicious lawsuit
Speaker 1: filed by California Democrats trying to prevent us from arguing
Speaker 1: to voters why they should pass voter ID. This is
Speaker 1: against the First Amendment, and we're fighting back, but we're
Speaker 1: going to need your help. I'm Carl Demio, chairman of
Speaker 1: a Form California and a California state representative.
Speaker 2: And you heard that right.
Speaker 1: California Democrats have filed a malicious, frivolous, nasty lawsuit against
Speaker 1: the Yes on Prop thirty nine campaign, our campaign because
Speaker 1: they don't want California to adopt a voter ID requirement
Speaker 1: and Prop thirty nine would basically give us a bipartisan
Speaker 1: solution for voter ID. So Democrats they don't want to
Speaker 1: have a fair election. They are now suing our campaign,
Speaker 1: trying to prevent us from filing our arguments in the
Speaker 1: official state ballot book, the ballot guide that is printed
Speaker 1: and mailed to all the voters with the pro and
Speaker 1: con arguments for all the ballot measures.
Speaker 2: They're suing because they.
Speaker 1: Don't like our argument. Now, mind you, they have their argument.
Speaker 1: Under state law, people who oppose an initiative get five
Speaker 1: hundred words and a two hundred and fifty word rebuttal
Speaker 1: to describe why they think something is bad. And then
Speaker 1: on top of that, the people who support the initiative
Speaker 1: get five hundred words as to why they like the
Speaker 1: initiative and a two hundred and fifty word rebuttal to
Speaker 1: argue against what the opponents say. That's fair, but Democrats
Speaker 1: don't like fair. Now these politicians want to rig the election.
Speaker 1: We already have a problem where the Attorney General has
Speaker 1: changed the title on the actual ballot. It used to
Speaker 1: say Prop thirty nine requires identification to vote and citizenship verification,
Speaker 1: which is a fair title that we got a year
Speaker 1: ago when we first filed the initiative and collected one
Speaker 1: point four million signatures using that ballot title on petitions
Speaker 1: or all around the state. And yet the Attorney General,
Speaker 1: Rob Bonta, has decided, Nope, last minute, we're going to
Speaker 1: change the ballot title. I'll share with you his maliciously deceptive, dishonest,
Speaker 1: and biased title in just a moment. But now we
Speaker 1: have this second lawsuit that we're having to deal with,
Speaker 1: which is in the official ballot book where we should
Speaker 1: be able to get under our First Amendment rights under
Speaker 1: California state election law, the supporters of an initiative.
Speaker 2: Get to make a five hundred word argument.
Speaker 1: The Democrats don't like what we're saying, and so they
Speaker 1: are suing us, trying to say you can't make that argument.
Speaker 1: You can't make that argument. And again I will go
Speaker 1: through their lawsuit in just a moment, but before we
Speaker 1: get into the details and what's going to happen this
Speaker 1: Thursday in a Sacramento courtroom, I'm asked asking you to
Speaker 1: join the fight because this is absolutely unfair what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. They're trying to rig the election against
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine, and we cannot allow this to stand.
Speaker 1: We need help to pay for the legal fight that
Speaker 1: we have ahead of us.
Speaker 3: We need help to.
Speaker 2: Mount the campaign.
Speaker 1: If we have unfair ballot statements and unfair ballot titles
Speaker 1: on Prop thirty nine, we need even more of your
Speaker 1: resources and your volunteer time to spread the word to
Speaker 1: get the truth out there to voters as to what
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine actually is. So go to the website
Speaker 1: voter Idea Initiative dot com voter Idea initiative dot com
Speaker 1: and join the fight ship and a contribution. Sign up
Speaker 1: as a volunteer. We need you to take material to
Speaker 1: just the Republicans in your neighborhood. We're going to give
Speaker 1: you a list of Republicans, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: go to Democrats and argue with them. I just need
Speaker 1: you to help us turn out the Republicans for Prop
Speaker 1: thirty nine and leave the Democrats and the independence to
Speaker 1: our campaign and the ads that will run on broadcast
Speaker 1: and general media. But we need your help as a
Speaker 1: volunteer to go to people who already agree with us,
Speaker 1: make sure they returned their ballot for Yes on Prop
Speaker 1: thirty nine for voter I D. So go to that website,
Speaker 1: voter d Initiative dot com. Join the fight either as
Speaker 1: a volunteer and or as a contributor.
Speaker 2: All right, so what is going on?
Speaker 1: First and foremost, the Attorney General changed the title on
Speaker 1: the ballot. And this is what you're going to see
Speaker 1: actually on your ballot, the ballot title, which is basically
Speaker 1: ninety percent of voters just look at the ballot title
Speaker 1: and then make their decision. So this is a very
Speaker 1: important description and politicians for years have manipulated the ballot
Speaker 1: title to try to sway voters one way or another.
Speaker 1: We think that this is a legal, illegitimate, unethical, dishonest,
Speaker 1: it's a rigged approach to our elections. But California Democrats
Speaker 1: have done it for years and the judges have let
Speaker 1: them get by with it. So what we've done is
Speaker 1: we've filed a lawsuit saying we want a fair title.
Speaker 1: Here's the original title. September nineteenth, twenty twenty five establishes
Speaker 1: additional voter identification and citizenship requirements citizenship verification requirements, and
Speaker 1: it basically describes the measure pretty fairly. This measure would
Speaker 1: amend the California Constitution to further require that voters present
Speaker 1: government issued identification at the polls or the last four
Speaker 1: digits of a government issued identification number when voting by mail.
Speaker 1: The state provide identification cards on request for free, and
Speaker 1: elections officials annually report the percentage of each county's voters
Speaker 1: whose citizenship they have verified.
Speaker 3: It's a fair description.
Speaker 1: They didn't expect us to get this on the ballot,
Speaker 1: which is why they gave us, I think a fair
Speaker 1: description a year ago. Well, we surprised them when We
Speaker 1: got one point four million signatures and got this qualified.
Speaker 2: For the ballot.
Speaker 1: So now they're like, oh gosh, what a surprise. They
Speaker 1: got it on the ballot. We can't let this get
Speaker 1: a fair election, so let's manipulate the ballot title to
Speaker 1: be biased against a yes vote.
Speaker 3: Here's the new title. Prohibits citizens from voting. Those are
Speaker 3: the first for words.
Speaker 1: Prohibits citizens from voting. Pejorative, such a negative cast, and
Speaker 1: it's also dishonest. It's not what our initiative does. Our
Speaker 1: initiative actually empowers citizens to vote, makes it easier for
Speaker 1: them to vote, makes it more secure for them to vote,
Speaker 1: and prevents non citizens from canceling out citizen votes. But no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Democrat Attorney General Robonta is a liar and he
Speaker 1: is corrupt.
Speaker 3: As the day is long. Prohibits citizens from voting, it.
Speaker 2: Says, and validates mail in ballots that do not have the.
Speaker 1: Last four digits or of a designated government issued identification
Speaker 1: number written on the envelopes. Prohibits in person voting without
Speaker 1: presenting government issued identification. This is so corrupt and dishonest.
Speaker 1: The title was manipulated, So we've filed a lawsuit. And
Speaker 1: it's a long shot lawsuit because liberal judges in California
Speaker 1: tend to allow the politicians to.
Speaker 2: Do whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 1: But we still have to sue because we believe that
Speaker 1: when someone does something wrong, even if might makes right
Speaker 1: in California's corrupt political cit and in the legal courts,
Speaker 1: we need to fight for an honest election for you,
Speaker 1: And whether we win or lose, we still have to
Speaker 1: fight on the title.
Speaker 2: I still believe we're going to win.
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine with your help by spreading the truth,
Speaker 1: because I think when voters see how it's being described
Speaker 1: and what it really is, when they find out, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the voter idea initiative, they are going to
Speaker 1: get angry. And I saw this years ago when they
Speaker 1: manipulated the ballot title on Prop six in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: the gas tax repeal initiative. They said it eliminates road repairs,
Speaker 1: and nothing in our initiative did that. It just said no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to allow you to increase the gas tax,
Speaker 1: and if.
Speaker 2: You ever try to do this again, you have to
Speaker 2: take it to the vote of the people.
Speaker 1: We overturned with Prop six an unfair costly gas tax.
Speaker 1: We didn't cancel road repair projects. That's something that's decided
Speaker 1: in the state budget, not through our initiative. But they
Speaker 1: said dishonestly eliminates road repair projects, didn't say anything about
Speaker 1: the gas tax repeal, and so it was hard for
Speaker 1: us in twenty eighteen, but we came from behind. We
Speaker 1: went from a twenty three percent yes all the way
Speaker 1: up to forty five forty six percent with the help
Speaker 1: of volunteers like you. This election Prop thirty nine, we
Speaker 1: have a larger volunteer team and I believe we're going
Speaker 1: to win, but we're going to.
Speaker 3: Have to try to sue. That's what this lawsuit is
Speaker 3: all about.
Speaker 1: This Thursday, and we'll get a judgment this Thursday, because
Speaker 1: the clock is ticking and the deadline is this week
Speaker 1: to print these ballots. And so this Thursday, we're going
Speaker 1: to be in a courtroom arguing that the Attorney General
Speaker 1: is lying with this title and asking a judge to
Speaker 1: overturn it, to modify it so that voters get a
Speaker 1: fair title on their ballot. So then after we filed
Speaker 1: our lawsuit two weeks ago, we get hit with a
Speaker 1: lawsuit by California Democrats. Top California Democrat lawmakers challenge the
Speaker 1: Prop thirty nine supporters claims.
Speaker 2: In a voter guide about voter ID measure.
Speaker 1: Remember, they get their five hundred words, we get our
Speaker 1: five hundred words. We believe that they're lying in their
Speaker 1: five hundred words, But they have a right to say
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they want to say as opponents. But
Speaker 1: they don't like us exercising our First Amendment rights to
Speaker 1: support our initiatives. So they're basically saying that we're being
Speaker 1: misleading when we say that our initiative makes it quote
Speaker 1: easier to vote.
Speaker 3: And I believe it does make it easier to.
Speaker 1: Vote, because right now you have to use your signature
Speaker 1: on the outside of a mail in ballot, and two
Speaker 1: hundred three hundred thousand ballots each election get rejected.
Speaker 3: Because of signature mismatches.
Speaker 1: We actually don't think the signature review process is adequate
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really do a good job of verifying
Speaker 1: identity because a lot of signatures are let through the
Speaker 1: system that are not any way, shape or form legitimate.
Speaker 1: But we believe that the four digits on mail in
Speaker 1: ballots of a government ID is far easier than.
Speaker 3: A signature process.
Speaker 1: A four digit pen is easier than the signature review process.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't remember how they signed their
Speaker 1: signature years ago, and the data confirms it in that
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of ballots are rejected even with a faulty,
Speaker 1: inadequate review process, and tens of thousands of ballots are
Speaker 1: never counted at the end of the day because people don't.
Speaker 3: Know their signature was rejected in time.
Speaker 1: We also do not believe that showing an ID to
Speaker 1: vote is somehow some extraordinary burden. We think it's pretty
Speaker 1: darn easy, and by the way, the voters agree with us.
Speaker 1: The second thing that they say that is dishonest is
Speaker 1: that we believe that by going from a signature review
Speaker 1: process to the four digits on a government ID for
Speaker 1: these mail in ballots, it will save a bunch of money,
Speaker 1: and that by cleaning up the voter roles, which is
Speaker 1: what Prop. Thirty nine requires, cleaning up the voter roles,
Speaker 1: it's not just voter ID, it's cleaning up the voter rolls.
Speaker 1: That that will save on printing and postage of mail
Speaker 1: in ballots that are being sent out to people who
Speaker 1: no longer live here. The politicians say, oh, voter ID
Speaker 1: is going to cost so much more money. We say, no,
Speaker 1: we think it's going to save money. They say that
Speaker 1: we're lying when we claim it's going to save money. Again,
Speaker 1: it's our opinion, their opinion. Voters get to decide in
Speaker 1: the ballot box. But though they don't want us to
Speaker 1: even express our opinion as to the benefits of our measures.
Speaker 3: Do you see how corrupt and unfair this is?
Speaker 2: But medmember in.
Speaker 1: California politics, with Democrats in the super majority.
Speaker 2: Might makes right.
Speaker 1: That is their whole philosophy. We control the judges, we
Speaker 1: appointed them. After twenty years, all the judges in California
Speaker 1: are liberal, liberal liberal. The California Supreme Court stacked with
Speaker 1: liberal justices. We get to do whatever the blank we
Speaker 1: want to do. Bullies, corrupt monsters. These people are so
Speaker 1: they're suing us, and now we have to respond to
Speaker 1: their frivolous lawsuit. The reason why they're suing us is
Speaker 1: not only because they're corrupt and they think they have
Speaker 1: a chance to knock our arguments out.
Speaker 2: But they know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: The ballot title is dishonest, and they're trying to distract.
Speaker 2: It's like the devil coming out complaining about sin.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, there's so much sin. Who's causing it?
Speaker 1: It must be them over there. The angels are causing
Speaker 1: the sin. God is causing sin. They're just trying to
Speaker 1: divert attention from their scam, their crime. Brievous and monique
Speaker 1: lemon jackals, that's what they are, corrupt jackals leading a
Speaker 1: tribe of misfits. So this Thursday, we will now be
Speaker 1: responding to the lawsuit that they filed against us, trying
Speaker 1: to defend our right to describe our measure in the
Speaker 1: ballot book as supporters, as is our right under California law,
Speaker 1: and under the first event, they do not get to
Speaker 1: muzzle us. They do not get to tell us what
Speaker 1: we are able and allowed to say in our campaign
Speaker 1: to support Prop thirty nine.
Speaker 2: We're not trying to infringe upon their.
Speaker 1: Free speech, but that's exactly what they're trying to do
Speaker 1: to us. Look, we're going to need your help in
Speaker 1: this election. Thursday is when we'll get the ruling, And
Speaker 1: when we get the ruling, I will let you know
Speaker 1: how the judge decides and whether we're going to appeal.
Speaker 1: I do believe that we are going to get a
Speaker 1: favorable ruling. I hope to get a favorable ruling on
Speaker 1: our ballad arguments, because it's absurd that they would censor
Speaker 1: the supporters of an initiative in this way. That the
Speaker 1: lawsuit that the politicians are filing against us seek.
Speaker 2: As a remedy.
Speaker 1: But again, we're dealing with corrupt liberal judges in California,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. The second lawsuit against
Speaker 1: the Attorney General, that's a harder one for us to
Speaker 1: prevail on because in the past they've always given the
Speaker 1: Attorney General part blanche to describe initiatives any way they
Speaker 1: want because liberal judges like their liberal appointees appointments from
Speaker 1: these liberal politicians. So we don't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of hope there. But we're going to prosecute that lawsuit
Speaker 1: because it is duty bound. We cannot just sit quietly
Speaker 1: as Thettorney General tries to put his thumb on the
Speaker 1: scale by putting a false, misleading ballot title out there.
Speaker 1: So sound off in the comments below about your thoughts
Speaker 1: as to the ballot title fight. Please go to the
Speaker 1: website Reform California dot org or Voter id Initiative dot com,
Speaker 1: chip in a contribution and sign up as a volunteer.
Speaker 1: Don't allow this dishonesty to play out in our elections
Speaker 1: without putting up a fight.
Speaker 2: Until next time, I'm Carlon, my own chairman.
Speaker 3: Of Reform California and at California State Representative.
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