How the SAVE Act actually seeks to destroy
What exactly is the SAVE Act?
The core goal of the SAVE Act is to require every person to provide documentary proof of citizenship just to register to vote for federal elections. In the past, you could usually register by checking a box swearing you are a citizen and providing a drivers license number, which is tied on the back end to Social Security data, not to mention many other metrics that have allowed our state and local election officials to conduct quality control list maintenance for decades.. Under this act, that system is gone.
Instead, you would be forced to show a U.S. passport or an original birth certificate. If you dont have those, youd have to find other highly specific government documents that many Americans dont have readily available.
The bill also moves the goalposts for how you register. It would require you to present these documents in person. This would effectively kill the convenience of registering by mail and would completely upend the online registration systems that millions of Americans use today.
A New Set of Hurdles
The SAVE Act doesnt just ask for ID; it asks for ID that many people simply do not have.
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https://www.brightamerica.org/p/how-the-save-act-actually-seeks-to
Redleg
(6,907 posts)... if not for voting? Now they are saying that isn't sufficient?
snot
(11,758 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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Fiendish Thingy
(23,018 posts)It would disenfranchise as many or more republicans as Democrats.
Blue Dotty
(179 posts)Our society for years automatically assumed a marriage partner would take the surname of their spouse. If we have to prove our citizenship to vote because of this custom, what will protect our right to property ownership and other rights of citizenship in this country?
All our hard fought for rights are being forfeited thanks to this regime.
lees1975
(7,017 posts)The federal government cannot legislate state election rules.
RussBLib
(10,594 posts)...and House and Trump signs it, lawsuits would be launched almost immediately, and I would expect the still-sane courts to say What The Fuck? Hell no, fools!
Emphasis on "expect." Since all this shit hasn't happened yet, it should be easy to stop.
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