These state-level bills -- based on the suppressive SAVE America Act, which is blocked in the Senate -- will harm voter turnout and block eligible voters from casting valid ballots. Our efforts to protect the fundamental right to vote depend on stopping them, one state at a time.
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When the House rammed the SAVE America Act (the new version of the SAVE Act) to passage earlier this year, we turned to the Senate to stop it. So far that effort has been successful, but that doesn't mean the threat is over.
State by state, opponents of voting rights in state legislatures around the country are pushing their own version of this suppressive legislation ahead of the midterm elections , John.
Ten states have laws -- four of which passed during this second Trump administration -- that require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Florida, Mississippi, South Dakota and Utah all enacted proof of citizenship voting bills in the past two weeks . In as many as 12 other states, bills are moving through state legislatures. If they all pass, that would mean nearly half the states in our country have passed mini versions of the SAVE America Act .
Defenders of voting rights know that non-citizen voting is already illegal, extremely rare, and that these bills are written in ways that could disenfranchise millions of eligible women across the country. That hasn't stopped anti-voting groups from pressuring states to pass these new restrictive voting laws, because the suppression is their goal.
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Opponents of voting rights in Congress, state legislatures, governor's mansions, and in the White House favor bills like the SAVE America Act because they know it could suppress millions of eligible voters, changing the composition of the electorate and potentially empowering them and their party for years to come.
These bills are all being fast-tracked by vote suppressors to be in place before November, John. This movement is a stunning assault on our fundamental right to vote, and we can not afford to let this kind of anti-democratic legislation become law.
Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of suppressive organization True the Vote, described the right-wing conspiracy theory group’s focus during a recent livestream: “ If the SAVE America Act isn’t going to pass then I’m going to use every tool at my disposal to try and get states to react to something ,” Engelbrecht said.
These dark-money suppression groups are willing to go state-by-state to enact their agenda and we have no choice but to match them with our grassroots power.
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