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California Governor Signs Law To Ban Local Voter ID Requirements

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Thursday that bars local governments from enacting laws to 
require residents to show a valid form of identification in order to vote. 

The law is a direct response to a ballot initiative approved by voters in the coastal California city of Huntington 
Beach. In March, 53.4% of residents voted to adopt a ballot measure that requires all residents who want to cast a 
ballot in municipal elections to show a valid ID. But the measure runs afoul of state law and, after it passed, 
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) sued the city to block officials 
from enforcing it.

"The right to freely cast your vote is the foundation of our democracy and Huntington Beach's voter ID policy flies in 
the face of this principle," Bonta said in a statement at the time the lawsuit was filed. "State election law already 
contains robust voter ID requirements with strong protections to prevent voter fraud, while ensuring that every 
eligible voter can cast their ballot without hardship. Imposing unnecessary obstacles to voter participation 
disproportionately burdens low-income voters, voters of color, young or elderly voters, and people with disabilities."

As that lawsuit went through the courts, the California Assembly passed a bill in August that was introduced earlier in 
the year by state Sen. David Min (D) to ban local governments like Huntington Beach from imposing voter identification 
requirements in municipal elections.

"We cannot have 100 different charter cities making up 100 different sets of voting rules, based on fringe conspiracy 
theories," Min said in August, according to the Los Angeles Times. "I have repeatedly told the Huntington Beach City 
Council members pushing this issue that if they were to produce any evidence of widespread voter fraud, I would lead 
efforts to change California's voter eligibility rules."

Though California's new law is now in effect, Huntington Beach has yet to respond to the lawsuit filed by Bonta and 
Weber in April.


Read the law here. 

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1174


Learn more about the case here.

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/california-huntington-beach-voter-identification-challenge/

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White Liberals More Likely To Have A Mental Health Condition

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/22/white-liberals-more-likely-
have-mental-health-cond/

Apr 22, 2021 - Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very 
liberal" or "liberal" have been told by a doctor they have a mental health 
condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and...

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White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems... - Newsmax

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/white-liberals-mental-health-study/2021/04/20/id/1018293/

The Pew Study, Which The Washington Free Beacon notes was published last year 
but only gained attention in a recent article, showed that white liberals of 
all ages were more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition than 
moderates or conservatives, with the disparity particularly pronounced among 
those aged 18-29, according to evie...

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Study: Young White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/22/study-young-white-liberals-
more-likely-to-have-mental-health-problems/

Apr 22, 2021 - When sex and age were factors, 56.3 percent of white women 
between the ages of 18 and 29 and who labeled themselves as "liberal," said 
they had been given a mental health diagnosis, compared to 27.3 percent of 
conservatives in the same categories and 28.4 percent of moderates:

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62% of "liberal" or very "liberal" whites have a mental health condition

https://www.independentsentinel.com/62-of-liberal-or-very-liberal-whites-have-
a-mental-health-condition/

According to a Pew Research Center survey, 62% percent of Whites who classify 
themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" has been told by a doctor they have a 
mental health condition. Only 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates have 
been told they have such a condition, the study found.

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Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness...

https://wibc.com/108211/pew-study-white-liberals-disproportionately-suffer-
from-mental-illness/

White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health 
diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% 
in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. Zach Goldberg, a Ph.D. candidate in 
political science, consolidated the study's info in a set of visuals and posted 
them to a thread on Twitter.

SCIENCE: White Libs More Likely To Have Mental Health Problems

https://freebeacon.com/politics/white-libs-mental-health/

Within this demographic, 34 percent of liberals reported having mental health 
problems, compared with 22 percent of moderates and 16 percent of 
conservatives. Zach Goldberg, the doctoral...

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White Liberals Twice as Likely to be Diagnosed with Psychological Problems

https://www.hennessysview.com/p/psychologic-disorders-white-liberals

Nearly 1 in 2 (45.9%) of white liberals have been diagnosed with mental health 
disorders. White liberals of all ages are more than twice as likely as 
conservatives of any age to suffer from mental health disorders. White liberals 
are almost twice as likely as non-white liberals to be diagnosed with mental 
health problems.

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6 Reasons Why Liberalism IS A Mental Disorder (LOL) - The Political Insider

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/6-reasons-why-liberalism-can-be-considered-a-
mental-disorder/

In 2005, Michael Savage famously wrote a book titled, Liberalism is a Mental 
Disorder, the subject of which is self-explanatory. Additionally, Dr. Lyle 
Rossiter, a board-certified clinical psychologist, wrote a book in which he 
diagnosed the ideology of the left as a tangible mental illness.

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Personality Traits, Mental Illness, and Ideology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/202103/personality-traits-mental-illness-and-ideology

specifically, surveys on the " big five " traits of extraversion, 
agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience have 
found that people identifying as politically...

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Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health...

https://theliberal.ie/study-claims-over-50-of-liberal-women-under-30-have-
mental-health-issues-men-and-women-with-liberal-views-more-likely-to-be-
mentally-unwell/

Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues, men 
and women with liberal views more likely to be mentally unwell April 24, 2021 - 
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