Passing the SAVE Act

Four Democrats joined 216 Republicans to vote for the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a piece of legislation which protects election integrity in all fifty states, requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID at least in Federal elections. It now goes to the Senate where sixty votes are needed.

 

Passage in the Senate and signing the legislation into law would enshrine President Trump's recent Executive Order essentially mandating this into uniform Federal law.

Of course, Democrats have rejected the bill, despite polling indicating bipartisan support for voter ID requirements. Chief among their rejections include the difficulty Blacks, Hispanics married women and other groups would have getting required identification. Like a driver’s license or State ID, proving citizenship, as if a birth certificate or maturalization documents were hard to obtain, seniors getting around, and other nonsensical excuses.

Their positions on all of these issues are truly insulting.

"After four years of mass illegal immigration facilitated by the Biden administration, it is more important now than ever to ensure only American citizens are voting in American elections. By passing the SAVE Act, House Republicans are once again proving our commitment to defending the will of the American people," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn said in response to questions by the media.

Meanwhile, Democrats have rejected the implication that illegal immigrants are voting in US elections. Nineteen Democrat-

led states and Democrat leaders sued the Trump administration's election integrity executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote in American elections.

And of course, Democrats are wringing their hands.

"Noncitizens attempting to register to vote is exceedingly rare, and if they do, they face severe consequences, including fines up to five years in prison, and deportation," Representive Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., said on the House floor, urging her colleagues to reject the SAVE Act.

But it should not be happening at all.

"Coupled with President Trump's recent anti-voter election executive order, the SAVE Act would end the voter registration process for all Americans as they know it. Republicans have repeatedly failed to present any evidence that noncitizen voting at a Federal level has ever affected the outcome of any election," Representative Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., added in opposition to what he called the "extremist anti-voter SAVE Act."

Thirty-six states request or require identification to vote. The SAVE Act would federalize the issue, requiring proof of citizenship to vote and removing noncitizens from voter rolls.

Isn’t that what faith in election integrity is all about?