NO – Prop. 39 – Prohibits Citizens from Voting Unless They Present Government-Issued Identification

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Whether its on a federal, state or local level, however, every one of these voter-suppression efforts are funded by billionaires.

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Don’t fall for MAGA voter suppression tactics!

What’s the Background? The billionaires are at it again! Reform California with Carl DeMaio is funded by not one but at least nine billionaires – including major GOP donor Richard Uihlein who doesn’t even live in California but spent $4,000,000 helping to fund the effort to get Prop 39 passed. And Californians for Voter ID is run by Julie Luckey – the mother of Trump-supporting tech billionaire Peter Luckey.

Think of Prop 39 as the SAVE Act’s little brother. While it doesn’t have all the same requirements as the SAVE Act, it opens the door to proof of citizenship requirements and purging voter rolls in future elections – advancing the Trump voter suppression agenda and adding costly, unnecessary barriers that could block eligible California voters, expose personal information to identity theft, and waste hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars – all to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

What would Proposition 39 do?

  • Amend the California Constitution to require voters to show government-issued identification at the polls every time they vote OR provide the last four digits of a government ID such as a Driver’s License or Social Security Number on the envelope of their mail-in ballot.
  • Require election officials to maintain “accurate” voter registration lists and . . . “use best efforts” to verify citizenship attestations using government data and report the percentage of each county’s voter rolls that have been verified annually.
  • Require the state and each county to audit voter rolls for compliance every odd-numbered year and report findings.
  • Invalidate mail-in ballots that do not have the last four digits of designated Government-issued ID written on the envelope.
  • According to the state’s Legislative Analyst, Prop 39 could cost between tens of millions and the low hundreds of millions of dollars each year to implement.
What They Want You to BelieveWhy Is This a Problem?
“Prop 39 restores election integrity and public trust in the voting process.“This is a solution in search of a problem. There is virtually no evidence of noncitizen voting in California. Even the Heritage Foundation’s own fraud database lists just 77 cases of noncitizen voting nationwide in over 20 years – out of billions of ballots cast according to the League of Women Voters.
“Voters need to present a government-issued ID or list the last four digits of the government-issued ID that they used to register on their mail-in ballot just to prove they are who they say they are.“Voters already provide an identification card and the last four digits of their Driver’s License, California ID, or Social Security number when they register to vote. They also certify eligibility and U.S. citizenship under penalty of perjury, and the signature on their ballot envelope is matched to the signature on their registration every time they vote by mail. Since most California voters vote by mail, putting a voter’s identifying information on the outside of an envelope could lead to serious issues with identity theft. AND, people may not remember which form of identification they used when they registered, so there’s a good chance they will provide the wrong “four digits” on their envelope which will invalidate their ballot.
“Most California Voters already have a Driver’s License, so what’s the big deal?“According to VoteRiders, 1 in 5 Californians – roughly 4.5 million eligible citizens – don’t have a current, accurate Driver’s License. According to the ACLU, “Voter ID requirements are a form of voter suppression designed to disenfranchise people of color, seniors, low-income voters, college students, and voters with disabilities, all of whom are less likely to have a valid ID.”
“State-issued IDs are free so everyone can get one.“There is a hidden cost to obtain an ID – including time off work, access to transportation, travel to-from the location to get the ID, childcare, etc., that are prohibitive for many eligible voters.
“Regularly auditing voter rolls will ensure that noncitizens do not vote.“There is virtually no evidence that noncitizens vote in California; meanwhile, the use of “best efforts” to match voters to available government data during audits could result in politically motivated purges of voter rolls.

Opposed by: the California Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, ACLU, and California Common Cause

CADEM
Los Angeles dem. Party
California Young Democrats
League of Women Voters CA
Cause action fund
Central Coast Labor Council
CA fed. of teachers

Opponent(s): League of Women Voters, Various
ACLU chapters, Asian Law Caucus, California Black
Power Network, California Common Cause, California
Donor Table, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
(CHIRLA), Courage California, Disability Rights
California, Equality California, For

  • Secretary 
    Xavier 
    Becerra 
  • Speaker 
    Robert 
    Rivas
  • Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limon
  • US Senator
    Adam Schiff
  • Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar
  • Congresswoman Zoe 
    Lofgren
  • California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks

“NO” Recommended by

CA fed. of teachersCA Teachers association

Villain-aires
Sergey Brin – Google Co-FounderPatrick Collison – CEO of StripeJohn Doerr – Chairman of Kleiner PerkinsMax Levchin – CEO of Affirm
Stewart Resnick – President and Chairman of The
Wonderful Company		Eric Schmidt – Former CEO of GoogleTony Xu – CEO of DoorDashMichael Moritz, Former partner at Sequoia Capital
Peter Thiel, Co-founder of Palantir

(Commoncause.org) Right-leaning billionaires help bankroll an unnecessary California voter ID ballot measure, that will cost our state hundreds of millions EVERY YEAR.

The billionaires behind Prop. 39 

(lapublic.org) Prop. 39 was created by Reform California, a conservative political organization led by Carl DeMaio, a Republican California state assemblymember and podcaster from East San Diego County. DeMaio is known for trying to slashpublic pensions while serving on the San Diego City Council and pushing the state Republican Party further to the right to align with President Donald Trump’s immigration and voting restriction efforts. 

To qualify Prop. 39 for the November election, Reform California raised millions of dollars from at least nine billionaires, including Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, according to the Sacramento Bee. The fundraising committee behind the measure is run by Julie Luckey, the mother of military technology company Anduril Industries CEO Palmer Luckey.

Palmer Luckey is a donor to Trump and the Republican Party and has referred to himself as a “radical Zionist.”  

Anduril’s best-selling product, according to Luckey, is their AI equipped surveillance towers they sell to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to track migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.  

The campaign to get Prop. 39 passed has received donations from Uline (a major Trump donor) CEO Richard Uihlein; Norman Metcalfe, director of Tejon Ranch Co.; and shopping mall developer Rick Caruso.


Nicole Shanahan
Douglas Leone
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss

Aubrey Chernick 
Joyce Chernick
Tim Draper
Rick Caruso

Richard Uihlein
Elizabeth Uihlein
  • Proponent(s): Carl DeMaio (Republican State
    Assembly Member from San Diego),
  • U.S. Rep. Ken
    Calvert (R),
  • State Sen. Tony Strickland (R),
  • State Rep.
    Bilal Essayli (R),
  • State Rep. Alexandra Macedo (R),
    State Rep. David Tangipa (R),
  • Donald J. DiCostanzo (eBike entrepreneur from Newport Beach)
  • BILLIONAIRE:Timothy C. Draper (Founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a tech
    venture capital firm)

Funder(s): (Data is from 1/2026)

  • Californians for Voter ID $7,488,506
    Reform Calif. w Carl DeMaio (R) $4,475,050
    Top donors to these committees:
  • BILLIONAIRE: Richard Uihlein (CEO of Uline, a Wisconsin-based
    shipping and industrial supplies company. He has
    funded initiatives spreading disproven conspiracy
    theories about voter fraud, and he was one of the
    biggest financial backers of groups that sponsored
    the pro-Trump “March to Save America” rally on
    January 6, 2021.) $4,000,000
  • Steve Bray (CEO of Power Plus, which rents electrical
    equipment to contractors, little info available about
    other political donations, but in 2023 he gave
    $250,000 to a minister who fought covid lockdowns
    that stopped church services) $2,500,000
  • Ken Calvert for Congress (R) $300,000
  • Oxford Property Investments LLC (commercial real
    estate investment firm) $300,000
  • Tony Strickland for Senate (R) $300,000

At least nine billionaires, as tracked by Forbes’ list, have invested in the fundraising committee Californians for Voter ID, which is run by Julie Luckey, the mother of tech billionaire and Trump supporter Palmer Luckey. The top donor is Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein, who contributed $4 million. Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, were the fourth-largest donors to federal elections from 2023 to 2024, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance site Open Secrets. A 2022 ProPublica investigation found the couple backed candidates and groups promoting false claims surrounding the 2020 election.

Attorney Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 vice presidential candidate, gave $370,000 Venture capitalist Douglas Leone contributed $250,000 Twin investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss each gave $250,000 Investor Aubrey Chernick gave $150,000 and his wife, Joyce Chernick, added another $25,000 Venture capitalist Tim Draper contributed $50,000 Los Angeles real estate developer Rick Caruso gave $25,000

Many of the donors have ties to Republicans. Shanahan endorsed Trump when she and Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race. Leone gave $2 million to Ron DeSantis in his failed 2024 presidential bid, and later, more than $2 million toward electing Trump. The Winklevoss twins each contributed $1 million towards boosting Trump in 2024 and millions more to other GOP committees in recent years. The Chernicks made maximum contributions to GOP gubernatorial hopeful Steve Hilton and have given hundreds of thousands more to Republicans in Congress.

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