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.
Here we go. This is how they’re going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.
I’m still wondering if this is going to be another case of themselves shooting themselves in the dick.
Most major urban centers and areas with the most electoral value are populated by metropolitan people and immigrants who already are well-used to carrying their passports and copies of all their validating paperwork. I travel a lot and know a lot of immigrant families, they almost all always carry a passport as primary identification (especially right now) and have photocopies of their paperwork and related documents.
Meanwhile, across most of rural, white hicksville America, people often don’t even have ID because they never left their town, and those who do may have their driver’s license and not much else.
I am really unsure what the administration’s plan is here. I figured they would have rolled out a voter ID law that actually helps them.
The chaos might be enough to sow doubt when the claims of rigging start flowing, as we all know they will… maybe that’s all they really want, and everything else is a bonus.
I fully agree, and you can just look around here for an example of what they intended for this to do, lots of lefties here screaming and crying that we need to do a civil war or some shit, and that the election will be stolen and voting is useless.
(For bonus points, check the account ages on many of these people.)
I just don’t think it’s going to have the impact they think it will, I think there’s going to be a public sentiment steamrolling them. People always vote out the incumbent leadership when they’re struggling and unhappy and I’ve never seen the country less secure and more fed-up with the prices of shit and the distracting culture-war nonsense.
The alternative was a woman! Of color!
/s for the fucking halfwits