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There’s a bill in Congress to make voting harder for EVERYONE
by Sue Racanelli
On April 10, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, passed the US House and is on its way to the Senate. The League of Women Voters of Vermont (LWVVT) opposes the SAVE Act because it would require all Vermont citizens registering to vote or updating their registration information to present documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office.
The legislation purports to protect elections from non-citizens’ voting. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. Violations can lead to fines, imprisonment, and deportation. According to the Brennan Center, during the 2016 election, only 30 incidents of suspected non-citizen voting were identified across a sample of 23.5 million votes in 42 jurisdictions — comprising 0.0001% of total votes cast.
The SAVE Act makes it harder for U.S. citizens to vote. More than 21 million Americans won’t have easy access to documents required by SAVE, including married women, rural and working-class voters, people of color, the military, elderly, disabled, inmates, tribal members, and survivors of natural disasters.
In the 2022 election cycle, only 5.9% of the 1,000,000 citizens who registered or updated their voter registration forms did so in person. The SAVE Act would eliminate many modes of voter registration most citizens rely on: registering by mail and online, through DMV, and at voter registration drives.
LWVVT calls on Vermont senators Sanders and Welch and the U.S. Senate to oppose the SAVE Act and protect the rights of American citizens to vote without undue obstacles.
Author is the President of the League of Women Voters of Vermont. The League of Women Voters of Vermont ( www.lwvofvt.org ) is a non-partisan organization working to protect voting rights and defend democracy.
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Hey LWVVT, if you drive a vehicle on the public highways, you are required to have on your person the government-issued photo ID known as a driver’s license. If you want to withdraw funds from a bank account, or write a check at a business where you are not personally known to them, they will want to see an ID. To rent a car, be prepared to show an ID. To fly on an airliner, you will have to not only show a government-issues ID, it must now be the enhanced kind with the star. If you are shooting IV drugs or drinking out in the open in Burlington and are observed by law enforcement, they can lawfully demand to see your ID and if you refuse can arrest you. Sure, voting is a right, but all the other people voting also have the right to not have our vote disenfranchised by unauthorized ballots. Basic stuff in life costs money. These folks that say that certain “groups of people” are too stupid, lazy or just have different economic priorities than the average American that somehow preclude them from obtaining an ID are RACIST.
He’s right. It’s soft bigotry to say others can’t
How did the Brennan Center determine only 30 incidents of non-citizen voting? Were these 30 located in 42 jurisdictions that require voter ID? How could a person be suspected of being a non-citizen in Vermont, where voter ID is not required? As an adult human female, I find it ridiculous that the League of Women Voters of Vermont thinks it is harder for married women to get the necessary documents to prove citizenship to register to vote.
What is it that people don’t seem to understand about insuring that all those that vote, are in fact legal voters ? For every vote that is illegally cast another is canceled. Is that what they want ?
Yes it is. They assume, and i would say accurately, illegally cast ballots tend to go one way
Like Carl Higbee of Newsmax says, “It isn’t that hard, one issue, one bill, one page”.
Voter ID – You must be a citizen to vote.
Paper Ballots
One Day Voting
No mail in voting.
Cleanup of voter rolls every year.
Absentee ballots by request only.
The Save Act isn’t making voting harder. It’s making it harder to cheat when voting.
The Commiecrats couldn’t win if they didn’t cheat or be able to change the voting laws in their favor. Or it’s too big to rig.
Seems like the left has captured every NGO on this earth.
Where are these citizen voting statistics from? How accurate can they be if citizen voting is not tracked? Worthless hyperpole distracting from the point.
Only 1M folks updated voting records in 2022?!? Does’t that TINY number reveal that few records are updated appropriately? Also without a requirement to show up to register to vote why would you? So 6% (according to this statistic) chose the harder way…or maybe it happened to be more convenient for them or whatever.