Rep Steve Cohen claims SAVE America Act will make it harder for Dems to get votes
Dem Rep Cohen claimed that the act would make it “most difficult for people who are less likely to vote for Trump.”
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Dem Rep Cohen claimed that the act would make it “most difficult for people who are less likely to vote for Trump.”
Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee has claimed that the SAVE America Act will make it harder for people who vote for Democrats to vote, seeming to imply that people who vote for Democrats are less able to get an ID than others in the country. An ID is needed to drive, get on a plane, and buy cold medicine at the supermarket, among other regular activities.
While speaking about the SAVE America Act, Cohen said, "His bill would make it more difficult for people who generally are not inclined to vote for him to vote. It would make it harder—they have to show identification, and some of the identification of passports or birth certificates that are hard to come up with and most difficult for people who are less likely to vote for Trump."
https://twitter.com/tpostmillennial/status/2036109047594631555
The SAVE America Act, which has been pushed in the Senate by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) as well as other conservative lawmakers, would nationalize voter ID requirements and require that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote. One would only need to have an ID as well as a birth certificate or passport to be able to vote.
As Republicans have been pushing for the bill to be made into law, Democrats—despite the majority of Democrat voters being in favor of voter ID laws—have made claims such that voter ID laws are akin to Jim Crow era laws. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said earlier in March, "The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people. If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate. Senate Democrats will not help pass the SAVE Act under any circumstances."
https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole/status/2030697779375604084?s=20
The GOP, however, has said that the reason Democrats are blocking the bill from getting passed in the Senate is that the lawmakers want noncitizens to be able to vote in elections.
https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2035545195245154554?s=20
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