Maye Musk (Credit: Elekes Andor)
Elon Musk is criticizing New York’s voting rules after his mother, Maye Musk, said a woman at a polling place angrily knocked away the ID she offered while voting.
Maye Musk, the 78-year-old model, dietitian, and author, was responding to a list of the 14 states that still refuse to require voter ID at the polls. Those states, as conservatives have noted for years, reliably deliver Democratic wins.
“Definitely New York,” she wrote. “When I voted and showed my ID, the woman was angry and hit it away.”
Definitely New York. When I voted and showed my ID, the woman was angry and hit it away. https://t.co/vnjbTQCLql
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) September 27, 2026
That is not a first for Maye. During the 2024 cycle she said early voting in New York City required no ID at all and that workers “won’t even look at your ID.” Later she described being told to sign a form, stuff it in an envelope, and drop it in a box while the worker “refused to see my ID.”
After his mother, Maye Musk, described being met with hostility when she tried to show identification at a New York polling place, the X owner dropped a charge that Democrats in the country’s two largest blue states have spent years pretending is “disinformation.”
In New York and California, they have made it illegal for officials to ask for or for you to show your voter ID!
They made election fraud mandatory. https://t.co/FrzVz3fU6b
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2026
Don’t take Musk’s word for it. Take Letitia James.
The New York Attorney General’s official voting-resources page states, in black and white, that voters “are never required to present photo identification to cast an in-person ballot” and instructs New Yorkers: “If you see or hear of anyone improperly requesting voter identification, contact OAG.” Read it here.
Poll-worker guidance tracks the same line: do not ask for ID unless the voter file is already flagged. Signature matching is the substitute. No photo. No citizenship check at the table. Just a scribble.
That is why a poll worker would get angry at a woman holding out a government ID. The training says don’t look. The AG’s office says report the person who asks.
California is even more aggressive. In 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1174, which bars cities and counties from requiring identification at the polls, a direct strike at Huntington Beach after voters there passed their own ID rule. Courts later killed the local measure. Sacramento made sure no charter city could close the barn door.
As The Gateway Pundit reported last month, California still lets applicants register online with no driver’s license and no Social Security number. The state’s own acceptable-ID list for the rare first-time voter who actually gets asked includes a gym card, an insurance card, or a credit card.
You can vote for governor with a Planet Fitness membership. You cannot cash a paycheck with one.
The hypocrisy is not subtle.
According to Fox News, New York City demanded two photos, two original IDs, and a Social Security card from emergency snow shovelers last winter, the same city that tells election inspectors not to look at a voter’s license.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in August, Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani floated ID requirements for his government grocery stores so people wouldn’t resell discounted food. President Trump’s response was the obvious one: they will check your papers to buy milk, but not to choose the people who run the country.
Need a beer? ID. Board a plane? ID. Pick up a prescription? ID. Decide who controls the House in November? In New York and California, that is treated like a poll tax.
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