‘The most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history’: How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting
‘The most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history’: How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting
I don’t understand this legislation at all. You already have to be a citizen to vote. This just makes voting harder.
No you understand it perfectly. The entire point is to make it harder for people to vote.
And to deny women, minorities, and the poor their right without spelling it out.
So, you do understand this legislation, because that's the point.
It makes it notably harder for:
Basically...Democrats. Or at least a hell of a lot more Democrats than Republicans.
It also makes it harder for people who have lost some of these documents.
I went through foster care and in that transition my original birth certificate was lost--I was a minor and had no idea I should look for it, or where it even was, to take it with me. It was hard to bootstrap myself after. Anyone who's lived through a domestic violence situation might have had to leave home suddenly with very little.
And that's not considering natural disasters like floods and fires and tornados that might have destroyed paperwork for people too.
That is the point. They know that they’re going to get fucking wrecked in any fair election going forward. Obviously, the solution is to make elections unfair by making it way harder to vote and way easier to challenge voter validity - a problem that, I should emphasize, is vanishingly rare. In fact, the highest incidence of voter fraud in recent years has come from Republican voters.
Sounds like you understand the legislation perfectly well.
I don’t understand this legislation at all.
Republicans can only win by utilizing two strategies.
Misinformation and voter suppression.
The point is that you need to be able to prove you're a citizen. The WH get to decide what is accepted a proof.
Putting up barriers to committing a crime is more effective than punishment after the fact. It's already illegal to commit crimes with firearms, that doesn't mean they should repeal the Brady Bill. This also undermines the narratives about muh stolen election.