For anyone who wants a fair election, this is a no-brainer vote.
The SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act does one thing: it requires proof of citizenship to vote. How could anyone be against that?
In answer, the SAVE Act passed through the House of Representatives today….by a vote of 221 to 198.
The vote by party?
-Republicans: 216 in favor, 0 against, with 4 not voting.
-Democrats: 5 in favor, 198 against, with 10 not voting.
And if SAVE somehow gets through the Senate – i.e. if just one or two Democrats vote in favor? Joe Biden will veto it.
How do I know this? Because here is the White House statement on SAVE:
The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections–it is a Federal crime punishable by prison and fines. The alleged justification for this bill is based on easily disproven falsehoods. Additionally, making a false claim of citizenship or unlawfully voting in an election is punishable by removal from the United States and a permanent bar to admission. States already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters’ eligibility and maintain the accuracy of voter rolls. This bill would do nothing to safeguard our elections, but it would make it much harder for all eligible Americans to register to vote and increase the risk that eligible voters are purged from voter rolls. The evidence is clear that the current laws to prevent noncitizen voting are working as intended–it is extraordinarily rare for noncitizens to break the law by voting in Federal elections.
The President has been clear: he will continue fighting to protect Americans’ sacred right to vote in free, fair, and secure elections, including by calling on Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. If House Republicans really want to do something about securing our border and fixing our broken immigration system, they should vote on the border deal that the President negotiated with a bipartisan group of Senators this would provide immigration officials the resources they need to do their jobs and be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border that we have seen in decades.
FYI: Non-citizen voting may be illegal, but since, without SAVE, voters cannot be asked to prove citizenship there is no way to prevent it from happening. And there are no credible data to show that illegal voting is rare. None at all.
Can you tell me what possible reason the Democrat Party is so against this act, other than that they want non-citizens to vote and expect they will vote Democrat?
In other words, for the same reason they fight tooth and nail to prevent a requirement for voter ID, proof of who filled out write-in ballots and cleaning up out-of-date voting rolls to remove people who died or moved.
This is not rocket science. One party is fighting to make voting clean and honest. One party is fighting every effort to do so.
If that doesn’t tell you something, you are either impervious to learning, so Democrat-partisan that cheating is just fine as long as you win, or both. End of story.
