A recent Pew poll finds roughly 80% of Americans support voter ID laws. They’re a political no-brainer.

But Democrats shriek when they hear the words.

The latest example of their crusade to stamp out voter id is happening in – no surprise – California. In Huntington Beach, a city of 194,000, residents recently approved a requirement for voter ID in elections – a form of which is mandatory in 36 states and almost every industrialized democracy.

But, the state legislature moved with lightning speed to block the Huntington Beach measure in fear that it would spread to other cities.

A bill has just landed on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk that would ban all local governments from enacting voter ID laws. He is almost certain to sign it. “An overwhelming body of evidence proves that voter ID laws only subvert voter turnout and create barriers to law abiding voters,” claimed the bill’s author, State Senator David Min. He’s right. Voter ID inhibits turnout of noncitizen “voters.”