If Democrats Wanted To Reassure Voters Of Safe Elections, They Would Have Backed The SAVE Act

If Democrats were serious about restoring American confidence in “democracy,” they would have unanimously backed legislation to ensure noncitizens don’t cast ballots. Instead, House Democrats near-unanimously opposed such a bill’s passage Wednesday.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act made it through the lower chamber after lawmakers narrowly voted 221-198 to send the bill requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote for president and Congress over to the Senate. Just five Democrats voted for the bill after the left-wing party dismissed the legislation as an instrument of racist “fearmongering” planted by “the extreme MAGA Republicans” to keep nonwhites from voting. This is what Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., had to say during Wednesday’s debate on the House floor:

Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose. Let me be clear, they don’t want you to vote. They don’t want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices, young voices. Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized. And this xenophobic attack that we’re debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote.

And here’s what happened when the Daily Wire went around East Harlem asking black people if they had IDs or had any problem getting IDs, as opponents of voter ID laws often suggest:

“Who are these people talking to?” one woman asked the interviewer.

Probably Hakeem Jeffries. The SAVE Act, the House minority leader said Wednesday, was “designed to jam people up and prevent Americans