How the SAVE Act actually seeks to destroy [View all]
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 driver’s 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 don’t have those, you’d have to find other highly specific government documents that many Americans don’t 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 doesn’t just ask for ID; it asks for ID that many people simply do not have.
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