USA TODAY: SAVE Act makes it harder for Republicans to vote, too. Think they know that? | Opinion
By Chris Brennan, USA TODAY
Why are Republicans so hell-bent on keeping people away from polling places?
By Chris Brennan, USA TODAY
Why are Republicans so hell-bent on keeping people away from polling places?
It could be easy to mistake the so-called SAVE Act that passed the U.S. House April 10 as some sort of federal version of the voter ID laws on the books in several states. But the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act is so much worse than that.
Voter ID laws vary in the 36 states that require people to show some sort of identification at polling places, with some more stringent and disenfranchising than others.
The SAVE Act, by contrast, throws up impediments from the moment people attempt to register to vote, and then each time they try to re-register if they move or switch political parties. It would require voters to produce – in person – a passport or birth certificate to prove citizenship each time when registering. That probably sounds like no big deal if you have easy access to a passport or birth certificate. But there are millions of Americans with every right to vote who don’t have those sorts of documents.
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April 13, 2025.
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