Early election results suggest voters in Huntington Beach, California – the wealthy, majority-white surf town south of Los Angeles – may approve ballot measures to require voter ID in local elections, and to amend the city charter to ensure that Pride flags cannot be flown on city property.
California’s attorney general warned last year that the voter ID measure “conflicts with state law and would only serve to suppress voter participation without providing any discernible local benefit” and that the city risked state enforcement action if it moved forward with the policy.
