A California judge rejected the state’s attempts to shut down a conservative coastal city’s voter ID law April 7, ruling the city did not violate state elections law when voters passed the provision last year.
In his ruling early Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas denied a request by California Attorney General Rob Bonta to invalidate Huntington Beach’s charter amendment, passed in March 2024.
“There is no showing that a voter identification requirement compromises the integrity of a municipal election,” Dourbetas wrote in his decision Monday. “Municipal election results do not lack integrity because only residents of a municipality who are eligible to vote participated in the election.”…