Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms.
“I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, requires individuals to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. If passed, the legislation would also administer criminal penalties for election officials who register anyone lacking the required documents.
As my colleague Ari Berman wrote in February, the bill would potentially block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. The bill may impact millions of US citizens in other ways: tens of millions of women who took their partner’s last name, for example, may not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name could find it more difficult to register.
“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
That’s been their behavior continuously since the country’s founding. This is nothing new.
So, democrats are against voter ID because they can’t win democratically with verified citizenship?
Look at the implementation detail, not the principle. This doesn’t just require proof of citizenship, which is already a precondition for voter registration in every state. It imposes draconian “papers-in-order” that is specifically aimed at women, urban and poor people, who are just concidentally the populations less likely to vote for fascists.
Never believe that their proposed laws are for their stated purpose.
That’s entirely wrong. It doesn’t target women at all, and it’s very demeaning of you to assume that urban and poor people can’t get or don’t have access to a state issued ID. That’s sexist, classist, and racist of you.
Every state requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. All registered voters are citizens. Read a book.
No they don’t.