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If it Ain’t One Law, it’s Another
American Thinker ^ | 27 Sep. 2026 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 09/27/2026 4:48:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Trump Administration’s latest Supreme Court victory is a tribute to its persistence and innovation. It is, as well, a measure of the great changes in governance for which we owe thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE.

Stymied by the congressional refusal to enact the SAVE Act, which would put teeth in the constitutional proscription against non-citizen voting in federal elections, the Administration kept searching for other ways to ensure that non-citizens did not vote in federal elections. Under a 1996 law, Section 1373(c), the federal government must provide state and local officials, upon request, verification of the citizenship of voters. The system in use before this Administration stepped in was an archaic, unworkable clunker which made a joke of the legal requirement. This relic, the Systematic Verification Act for Entitlements (SAVE, not to be confused with the proposed SAVE Act), had been in the law books since 1986. That little-utilized forty-year-old law allowed federal, state, and local governments to verify the citizenship and immigration status of noncitizens who applied for public benefits. That no one apparently used it to verify voter eligibility (or even benefit eligibility) is no surprise. This Administration dug into it, found it was not suitable for the purpose of citizen verification, and altered it. The very mechanics set up for the SAVE verification scheme were expensive for users and unwieldy (if not impossible) to meet its stated purpose of benefit eligibility, nor a broader purpose -- voter eligibility.

In March of last year, the President rectified this and signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Homeland Security to put a better-designed SAVE system in place. The new system would, for once, enable state and local authorities to speedily verify the citizenship status of existing and prospective voters.

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1 posted on 09/27/2026 4:48:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists want illegal voting. It is about time they got prosecuted for allowing it.


2 posted on 09/27/2026 4:48:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Let’s be fair…it’s not just the L that wants illegals voting. Otherwise the SAVE act would be law by now.


3 posted on 09/27/2026 4:52:14 AM PDT by 556x45
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Oh but it is the L. The headfake is that some L people pretend to be R and get elected because they run against even bigger Ls.


4 posted on 09/27/2026 4:57:31 AM PDT by Kudsman (Killing and raping infidels, it's a cultural thing. )
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To: 556x45

100%.

Among the foreign illegals stampeding the border and invading us for decades combined with a $40 trillion dollar debt and the accumulation of colossal 100’s of worthless federal laws it is fair to state that the Uniparty Congress, has been and always will be our enemy.

The children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” states it rather well when it comes to voters.


5 posted on 09/27/2026 5:26:46 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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“””In March of last year, the President rectified this and signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Homeland Security to put a better-designed SAVE system in place. The new system would, for once, enable state and local authorities to speedily verify the citizenship status of existing and prospective voters.””””


What I would like to see is a list of the States that have used the NEW SYSTEM and how many illegals’ Voter Registrations have been removed.


6 posted on 09/27/2026 6:25:58 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MtnClimber

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7 posted on 09/27/2026 7:22:57 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi .issue vor in)
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