Why every candidate for Congress should take a public stand on voter-ID

By blocking a Senate vote that would let the SAVE Act become law, Democrats are setting themselves up for big trouble — since their arguments against voter-ID are so transparently absurd.

Per Pew, 83% of all American adults support requiring some form of ID to vote in US elections — and that includes 71% of Democrats.

Which explains the massive alliance of left-wing groups mobilized to fight the voter-ID measure that should appear on the ballot this fall in California, a state Democrats now completely dominate.

The ACLU, Common Cause and so on would love to derail the measure before it faces a vote, even though (or perhaps because) it garnered more than 1.3 million signatures.

“This voter ID measure is not about protecting voters; it is about importing the current federal administration’s election lies and intimidation tactics into California,” blared League of Women Voters functionary Jenny Farrell.

Yes, that’s the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters showing its true colors.

Of course, asking people to prove they are who they say they are and that they have the right to vote in America isn’t intimidation or “lies” (huh?): it’s basic civics.

Common Cause’s Brittany Stonesifter similarly whines, “As our elections are under threat at the federal level, California must protect access to the ballot box, not block it off.”

The federal “threat” is of course the SAVE Act, which Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer is actually calling “Jim Crow 2.0” — the very same charge he (and Joe Biden, among many others) levied against Georgia’s 2021 election-security reforms.

And never mind that the Georgia law actually yielded increased turnout and contented black voters.

Yet serial liar Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) insists SAVE “is another way to simply suppress the vote.”

By all means, Democrats, keep making this case, telling America you think blacks are too disorganized to get drivers licenses and Hispanics voters can’t proudly show their US citizenship.

(And no, we don’t buy the theory that Dems are conspiring to flood the polls with illegal immigrants or other fraudulent voters, but their nuttiness on this issue makes you wonder.)

The case for voter-ID, incidentally, is all about something Democrats keep insisting is their issue: bolstering our democracy.

Securing the polls builds faith in elections — and so encourages turnout.

Looser rules undermine confidence, feeding despair about whether your vote can make a difference.

And, as The California Post recently noted, “In all the lawsuits against voter ID, not one activist group has found an individual plaintiff who can claim he was denied the right to vote because he needed ID.”

Regular Americans get it; it’s only the Democratic activist class that sees voter-ID as some racist menace.

So we hope the issue’s debated at length in every close race for Congress the whole rest of this year.