Moderate Democrats Bolt From New Voter Fraud Bill
WASHINGTON — Moderate Democrats who backed a GOP proposal to impose strict voter ID requirements last year appear ready to abandon a new Republican-backed effort to crack down on imaginary voter fraud.
The old bill, dubbed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, would require voters to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. The new bill, called the SAVE America Act, would require Americans to prove their citizenship when they register and to show photo identification when they actually vote on Election Day.
“This is voter ID at the ballot box. It’s totally different than registration,” centrist Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), who backed last year’s proposal, told HuffPost. “They’re totally different policies.”
Progressive groups like Indivisible have urged voters to pressure Golden and the other Democrats who voted for the first SAVE Act – Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Ed Case (Hawaii) – to vote against it if Republicans tried to move any new versions of the legislation.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/save-america-act-voter-id-house_n_698cd1fbe4b080ae0a834ee1
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