Posted on 04/05/2025 10:01:19 AM PDT by george76
Anyone who cares about election integrity should get behind the legislation. Those who don’t? Well, they have their reasons.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to secure elections, including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote — mirroring a bill set to be voted on in the House. While noncitizen voting is already illegal, the current law is largely toothless. Trump’s order, along with the House legislation, would simply add some teeth.
But Democrats are terrified that Republicans are finally taking the needed steps to enforce the law and protect our elections from violations that have been long ignored.
“Trump and Congressional Republicans are escalating their assault on American democracy through the noxious SAVE Act,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “Congressional Republicans are pushing a proposal that would coerce states into instituting policies that would effectively prevent millions of American citizens from voting …”
But how does Schumer know these “millions” of people are American citizens? Is he just taking their word for it?
The truth is, Schumer doesn’t have proof — and neither does anyone else. Taking someone’s word for their citizenship status isn’t confirmation, and our elections should never hinge on the honor system when so much is at stake. That’s why Republicans introduced the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
The act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require prospective voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to register. While noncitizen voting is already illegal, the only thing standing between a noncitizen and secure elections is a small square box on the federal registration form that requires applicants attest to their citizenship status under penalty of perjury.
It’s a system ripe for fraud.
Take, for example, that a Chinese college student cast an illegal vote this past election cycle despite being a noncitizen. His vote was ultimately counted because ballots are secret and once a vote is cast and run through a tabulator, it is impossible to identify who cast the ballot. In Iowa, Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez was charged for “registering to vote and illegally voting on the same day, July 16, 2024, in a special election of the Marshalltown City Council,” according to the state’s attorney general. An October Georgia audit found 20 noncitizens registered to vote, and nearly half of them reportedly previously voted in an election.
Oregon’s secretary of state similarly found nine noncitizens who had voted in past elections, as well as “more than 300 noncitizens [who] were erroneously registered to vote,” as The Federalist’s Logan Washburn explained. Meanwhile, six noncitizens were indicted in Ohio for allegedly voting in past elections.
The examples are endless — and dangerous. When elections are decided on razor-thin margins (Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her 2020 election by just six votes) every vote matters — but not every vote should count. Votes cast by ineligible voters, like noncitizens, should not count. In fact, they shouldn’t even be cast in the first place. One way to prevent that from happening is by requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote — that way noncitizens are unable to even get on the voter rolls.
But Schumer has vowed to “make sure” the SAVE Act is blocked by Senate Democrats. His comments were echoed by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., who said his party would “overwhelmingly” oppose the legislation.
Without requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, there’s no real way of knowing whether noncitizens are making it on voter rolls or casting a ballot. And, as reported by The Federalist’s Breccan Thies, data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows “the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001-2021…”
Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation Hans von Spakovsky told The Federalist that he spent four years at the DOJ and that the department is “filled with left-wing ideologues, and they just had no interest — they have no interest in going after aliens to prosecute them.”
The DOJ won’t do its job, which makes the SAVE Act and Trump’s order even more necessary.
Anyone who cares about election integrity should get behind the legislation. Those who don’t? Well, they have their reasons.
Baby steps, that’s how they broke it that’s how were going to have to fix it, We all want it now but we’ll have to be content with progress
My daughter works with a post-grad foreign exchange student who wondered why she was getting email telling her to go vote. I told my daughter she should try to find out who sent the email and send that info to Ken Paxton.
Another way elections could be secured is if the social security database was connected to voting systems so that there would be a ping anytime an illegal tried to vote. There could be officers on hand to immediately arrest anybody who tried. Of course, that would only work with illegals who have ssn’s. But in AZ, for instance, those without a ss# can vote in Presidential elections but not in state elections - thanks to the judges’ interpretation of the law that the SAVE Act would amend.
We get these stories of 1 or 2 people voting illegally, but somebody said that DOGE found over a million voted illegally in the last election. I still haven’t seen the documentation for that, but that sounds very believable. I read before the election that illegals get materials when they enter - presumably from whatever govt-funded NGO is helping them - telling them to register to vote, and make sure they vote democrat. I’d have to look to find that info though, and I’m getting ready to go to work now. Maybe somebody else already has that info handy.
Democrats feel that putting up a citizen-sensitive turnstile to the ballot box will affect the number of Democrat-leaning voters. The original argument, that some citizens don't have the documentation that they are citizens, was arguably true in some parts of the country -- birth records were kept on the flyleaf of the family Bible, for example. Other Democrats view the cost of obtaining government proof for voting purposes as a form of poll tax; not everyone can afford it.
The answer is not for Republicans to try to inflate the voter rolls with their own right-leaning illegals. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The "right" answer would be for Soros et al to help defray the cost of citizenship documentation for the disadvantaged. Start an NGO that covers the cost of registration, issuance, and maintenance of process.
Too bad that you have to have some proof (some of the time) to board an airplane, to buy booze, to obtain medical care, to open a bank account. Even my apartment complex requires a driver's license to even fill out an application.
But not to vote.
The Trump administration needs to do what Viktor Orban did in Hungary:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/orban-european-union-soros/560480/
Hopefully, they’re working on it.
Dems have an uphill road in national elections and swing states if they don’t cheat and they know the numbers very well. In “Schwing” states they have it made.
Stolen elections is all the RATS have.
Everyone is being forced into updating their drivers license to True I.D. so Schumers assertion is so much Bull Schumer.
Democrats tend to win when they find a way to skirt the rules.
<>The act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act,<> meaning Motor Voter, which was put over the top by the following GOP senator squishy rinos in a 62-37 vote:
Durenberger, MN
Packwood, OR
Specter, PA
Hatfield, OR
Jeffords, VT
Soros and Son, Chinese agents and Dem insiders meeting in an undisclosed location:
“So if they give people freedom of speech and now make them show voter ID in fairly counted elections then we are finished.”
“Calm down. We’ll bring them violence in the streets before we let that happen.”
“Thanks. I need to go change my pants and underwear. Got a little scared before.”
And well they should be! Were it not for election fraud, the Party of Hate and Evil would have been trashed on the garbage dump of history long ago.
They should be. Now they might have to run on their track record and actual principles rather than agitprop and hate.
What is hilarious to me, as a libertarian, is watching conservatives elect long time Democrats who switched Parties, while not purging the likes of Collins and Murkowski... who are Republicans... but not conservatices.
Make it make sense...
The Phoenix is a myth too.
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