The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate.
The House voted 218-213 to pass the SAVE America Act, which experts have said could disenfranchise millions by requiring voters to show documentary proof of citizenship at registration and to provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.
I’m a Canadian so I don’t have to put up with this… but I don’t think I could legally prove citizenship on the spot though.
I do have a birth certificate, but it’s damaged, and would be considered invalid. It would cost me money to replace.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
Who do you think is saying that?
I mean, these guys pay good money for propaganda, I’m sure they have people posting shit like that everywhere to ensure people wait
Fuck the propagandists is a valid position to take.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single person saying that. Plenty saying that you should vote when mid-terms roll around, but none saying that you shouldn’t be doing anything before or after.
For example, this post last month: https://lemmy.world/comment/21539323
I sent a new reply to that comment with a link to this article and they still replied “that’s how elections work and you need to wait until November”.
Wow. Yeah that person’s a dumbass.
Last election several individuals committed voter AND election fraud. They were all Republicans.
Let’s see ‘em in the comments if you’re inclined to display them.
It’s a disgusting attempt to disenfranchise millions of women and anyone else who changes their name, or doesn’t have time/money for the hassle, but it’s also only one prong of the attack. The name match requirement would be at the time of voter registration, so wouldn’t affect current voters unless… Massive swaths were purged from the voter rolls - this is a reason why the feds keep suing for voter roll information from states, and why red states have complied
We the people need to rise up. Our entire government is compromised and occupied by criminals and Zionists who have “legalized” their criminal behavior at our expense
This mandates government registration to access an essential right of a citizen in a democracy. Ask for the same thing for gun ownership though and the right would lose their minds.
What’s interesting, is that many of us already do register with the state governments.
Its goal isn’t to regulate voting. It’s to suppress it.
provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Does this mean mail in voting is dead?
Also, the party of state’s rights everyone.
Photo ID makes sense, if the country has this allready in place. In Belgium everyone over the age of 12 has one and it’s all you need to prove identity. And since it has a electronic chip, you can use it to handle quite a lot of official administration through the internet.
Evil in action.
The US was always doomed to fail. You can’t make a nation out of an empire. You can’t build a democracy on top of slavery, colonialism and genocide.
I think there are some well meaning people trying very hard to make it work, and god bless them, but they’re certain to fail.
The only thing to do now is try and find a viable exit strategy. The US Federal government will soon be completely and permanently taken over by the terrorist organization that is the Republican party. It’s time for states to start forming their own, independent militias while the 2nd amendment at least still exists. We can hope that peaceful secession will be possible, but we certainly cannot plan on it.
Jokes on them. Our super-lefties weren’t gonna vote anyway.
Speak for yourself. I’ve voted in every election I’m eligible for since I turned 18 in '98. That was a midterm election. Still voted.
I consider voting to be the most patriotic thing anyone can do, followed closely by paying taxes.
Ah one o’ them genoside supporters eh?
(/s of course, I’m in complete agreement.)
