Despite Rob Bontas dastardly push to stop voter ID, theres a simple way to get it passed

California is on the brink — of taking a simple step toward election security. The feds have been handing down scrutiny to make sure some murky elements from California’s election process are sorted out and exposed before the polls close on Nov.3. It’s all coming at a time of golden opportunity to help secure the Golden State’s elections, with Proposition 39, the voter ID measure, hanging in the balance — a measure that California voters can put over the line.

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Last week, the Department of Justice filed an emergency order to prevent California election officials from immediately counting ballots tied to 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters.After California Attorney General Rob Bonta moved to dismiss the DOJ’s lawsuit, the Department of Justice appealed to the 9th Circuit, which set a hearing set for Sunday, Oct.

25.The DOJ’s efforts are timely, and welcome — but while the feds act from on high, you, the California voter, have the chance to secure California’s elections by voting for Prop.39 on Election Day.And the need for such security is enormous, as Bill Essayli, LA’s top federal prosecutor, has shown.On Oct.

19, Essayli announced the arrest of 28 noncitizens who allegedly registered to vote in California elections, some of whom allegedly voted in multiple elections.Of that number, 12 were registered in LA County.The feds called it the largest voter fraud bust in California history. And if the 20,000 number — which Essayli called “the floor” — turns out to be to accurate, that would be an even more explosive revelation about how far our elections have fallen.Though Democratic officials like Bonta hem and haw that voter fraud that does exist is a “drop in the bucket” that...