RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The signatures of well over 100,000 Riverside County voters who added their names to a petition calling for a statewide ballot initiative that would require identification before voting in California were submitted to the county Office of the Registrar of Voters today.
“Our democracy relies on confidence in our elections, but Californians’ trust is fading,” according to a statement by the nonprofit Californians for Voter ID. “Voters are concerned about election security, thanks in part to issues like unchecked ballot harvesting, lack of citizenship verification and inconsistent signature reviews.”
The organization submitted a petition containing 130,704 signatures collected throughout Riverside County over the previous four months. The petition was received Monday morning at the front office of the registrar’s headquarters on Gateway Drive in Riverside…