Posted on 04/12/2025 3:01:22 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week the US House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) by a vote of 220 to 208. If also passed by the Senate this legislation would require proof of citizenship to vote.
Rep. Joe Morelle (NY) spoke out against the legislation calling it "excessively burdensome and unnecessary. Republicans contend that this legislation is needed to prevent the votes of citizens from being diluted by votes cast by non-citizens. They neglect to mention that it its already illegal for non-citizens to vote in most jurisdictions. Though I am pleased to say that most Democrats recognize the fundamental injustice of restricting voting in this way and are taking steps to remedy this undemocratic feature."
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) observed that "Democrats say it's already illegal to vote as a non-citizen, but that doesn't mean that you don't need further enforcement. Murdering someone is already illegal and rare everywhere in the United States, but we don't rely on the honor system to deter this crime from being committed. We recognize that further efforts are necessary. Presumably, illegal voting is also rare, but DOGE has been finding clues that indicate it may be more common than Democrats would like to admit. Polls consistently show that a substantially majority of American citizens support voter ID requirements."
Nineteen Democrat Attorneys General filed a lawsuit arguing that "the federal government requiring an ID to vote is unconstitutional because it interferes with each state's constitutional right to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) assert that "the decision on whether to allow non-citizens to vote is a right reserved to the states by Article I, Section 4 of the US Constitution. Trump's order instructing state officials to make their voter roll data available to DOGE so it can be probed for possible fraud is an abuse of power the president does not have."
Human rights expert Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC's The View, challenged the concept that there should be any restrictions on who gets to vote, saying "voting is a human right that should not be restricted to only citizens. Prohibiting non-citizens from voting subjects them to the tyranny of those who are permitted to vote. This is fundamentally wrong. For true democracy to work every person who asks for a ballot should be given a ballot, no questions asked. Making folks show IDs to get ballots is racist and unfair."
In other election integrity news, Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), announced "we have evidence of how electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast."
ping
If it wasnt for the likes of Rand Paul, I’d be more confident on a Senate Pass...
An expert on voting entitlements, human rights expert Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s
“The View,” challenged the concept that there should be any restrictions on who gets to vote.
Hostin insists, “voting is a human right that should not be restricted to only citizens. Prohibiting
non-citizens from voting subjects them to the tyranny of those who are permitted to vote.”
Hostin emphasized, “This is fundamentally wrong. For true democracy to work every person who asks for a ballot should be given a ballot, no questions asked. Making folks show IDs to get ballots is racist and unfair.”
Human rights expert Sunny Hostin....
The article is definitely satire
As preposterous as letting illegal aliens get on airlines with nothing but an arrest warrant for identification.
Oh wait...
lol.........
No, dipshite, one of its goals is to prevent NON-citizens from voting. Like the ~2M illegal aliens that voted in 2024 — see DOGE chart on SSecurity corruption.
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