An effort to qualify an initiative requiring voter identification has garnered more than 750,000 signatures of the approximately 1 million needed, according to the group behind it, Reform California. It’s likely it will reach the ballot given current signature-gathering deadlines.

Voter ID is a popular idea, so we expect it to qualify.

The measure requires voters to provide a government-issued ID for in-person voting and the last four digits of their Social Security Number for mail-in voting.

It also requires election officials to verify a person’s citizenship.

Currently, voters are required to provide identification upon registering, but not at the polls (except for those voting for the first time who didn’t include ID in the registration form).

We don’t have any problem with showing

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