Frequently Asked Questions
No. States that have enacted Voter ID laws have seen a significant increase in voting, including among minorities and women. Additionally, free voter ID cards are provided upon request. It doesn’t affect voters who changed their names and doesn’t require voters to submit passports, birth certificates, marriage licenses, or citizenship paperwork.
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Does Prop 39 suppress votes or prohibit legitimate citizens from voting?
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No. Mail-in voters are only asked to provide the last four digits of a government-issued ID number. This is the same baseline data you are already required to provide when you register to vote, and it does not expose any full ID numbers.
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Does writing an ID number on mail-in ballot envelopes risk identity theft?
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No. Prop 39 was placed on the ballot by 1.3 million California citizens. It is an independent, state-focused solution designed to improve public transparency and standard registration maintenance at the local level. There are no ties to federal proposed legislation or politicians.
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Is Prop 39 a partisan scheme backed by national politicians?
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No. Modernizing voter-roll systems and cleaning old, inaccurate records can reduce waste from duplicate, outdated, or undeliverable election mail. Independent audits every two years add transparency, accountability, and confidence that election officials are following the law. It does not require voters to provide additional information when registering to vote.
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Will citizenship checks create new burdens for voters?
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No. Over 100,000 mail ballots were rejected in 2024 due to signature mismatches. Relying only on signature verification for mail-in ballots is subjective and prone to human error by voters whose signatures have shifted over time and by election officials who are required to manually check mismatches
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Will this make voting harder and reject valid ballots?
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