Voter ID Drives Republicans

What voters have been wanting to approve, what will drive them to the polls, he predicted, is the Voter ID ballot measure sponsored by Repair the Vote Nevada, a PAC he leads.

“Absolutely,” Mr. Gibbs said, citing a 2023 Pew Research poll that documented “more than 93 percent of Republicans in Nevada are in favor of this” as are “almost two thirds of Democrats here in Nevada.”

Repair The Vote’s proposal to make Nevada the 46th state to require a Voter ID to cast ballots was about 25,000 voter signatures away from qualifying for the Nov. 5 ballot on April 24.

Mr. Gibbs said he doesn’t expect any difficulty in garnering the needed final signatures because voters want to sign it and want to see it on November’s ballot, a bipartisan consensus that could marginally benefit GOP candidates.

But in tight across-the-board elections, all edges are being explored in tweaking turnout, Mr. Gibbs said, and Voter ID is something Republicans have been harping on about in Nevada for years so getting it finally on the ballot will rally GOP voters more than Democrat voters.

“This is a big issue,“ he said. ”One of the things that I expect is, if somebody signs our petition, we figure there’s pretty good probability they’re going to get out and vote in November. I’m 100 percent confident that if we’re successful in getting it on the ballot, that it will pass