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.

  • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

      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.