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Richard Luthmann's avatar

The SAVE America Act is not revolutionary—it’s foundational. Citizenship is the entry point to political sovereignty. If you cannot verify membership in the political body, you cannot sustain confidence in its outcomes. Requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections is not extremism; it’s structural coherence. Every functioning system has thresholds. Banks verify identity. Airlines verify identity. Nations must verify identity at the ballot box. The real danger isn’t asking for documentation—it’s allowing doubts to fester unchecked. A republic survives on legitimacy. Legitimacy survives on clarity. Election integrity isn’t partisan. It’s prerequisite. Results don’t matter if half the country doubts the process.

Patrick Chine's avatar

Seems reasonable. If DEMs are the ones opposing, probably a good idea.

Jeanne L Virissimo's avatar

Why aren’t people calling out Alaska for not pressuring the corrupt Makowski to step up and vote yes?

Edouard d'Orange's avatar

You mean Sen. Lisa Murkowski. There aren't that many conservatives in Alaska to force the vote. The state went for the bad ranked choice voting system that helps keep Murkowski in office.

c Anderson's avatar

Murkowski is a self absorbed, and sanctimonious politician. She was asked if she was considering running for governor of Alaska. She replied that she likes DC. Why hang out in Juneau, when you can rub elbows with real elites in DC?

TJ Bingham's avatar

Complete BS. The only person that has tried to steal an election is now trying to suppress the vote. We can see what is going on and it’s more of the same lying to subvert our Constitution.

Rick Janes's avatar

One of the beautiful things about the First Amendment is it helps us know who the idiots are.

TJ Bingham's avatar

Actually it allows us to see who are the real sheeple. 🐑

c Anderson's avatar

I own sheep and have more respect for them than 99% of democrats.

TJ Bingham's avatar

Well maybe you should spend less time doing whatever you do with sheep and learn something about the traitors and thief’s you cow tow too.

c Anderson's avatar

Hey dim bulb, why don’t you learn how to spell? Kowtow.

TJ Bingham's avatar

lol pretty sure that was an autocorrect but must say if that’s the best you got considering the subject you’re an idiot.

Rick Janes's avatar

Indeed, and it’s an easy tell: sheeple have talking points indistinguishable from mainstream media’s.

TJ Bingham's avatar

No they have talking points indistinguishable from MAGA and seem to not have any comprehension of our Constitution and the importance of States Rights. Nor do they have the ability to think critically on their own. It’s a sad state of affairs.

TJ Bingham's avatar

Oh boy I share the same opinion about people that seem to have no clue about our Constitution. I have no problem with showing ID to vote. In my state I registered to vote when I got my state ID so all the documents were collected and verified. See independents and democrats on the whole don’t have a problem with ID’s.

This bill takes the rules of running a Federal election out of the hands of the states. Thereby federalizing the elections — a total end run around our constitution. Furthermore the Federal Government wants copies of voter rolls and other personal information of voters. It’s not their business. Also considering that social security information was taken from government computers during other DOGE fiasco and no one knows who took it and who is using it — doesn’t seem that the Federal government has a handle on protecting OUR privacy.

I actually didn’t need to see any mainstream media reports about this end run around the Constitution.

Carma's avatar

Unlike a lot of countries, America doesn't issue national citizenship cards.

In fact, a lot of this bill and the rhetoric around it, has been Republicans saying - 'look at all these countries that require proof of citizenship or, look at all these countries that require photo ID'.

Those countries issue NATIONAL ID cards that both prove identity and prove citizenship. The United States could do that, but

we've made a collective judgment as a country out if privacy concerns that we don't want a national registry on all of us.

We don't want a photo ID card that we carry around for all purposes that identifies us and that the federal government can track us with.

And by the way, it's mostly been REPUBLICAN WHO HAVE OBJECTED TO THAT!

Madame Publius's avatar

The “SAVE America Act” is “NOT a reaffirmation of first principles.” It is nothing more than a crutch to help prop up the hybrid, unconstitutional form of democracy.

The “constitutional architecture” that was “painstakingly erected by geniuses” was not a democracy. Madison, aka the Father of the Constitution being its chief architect, explained that what they gave us was to be “strictly republican.” (The Federalist Papers, Ltr. 39, ¶2.) “The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” (The Federalist Papers, Ltr. 51, ¶9.) He referred to this as a “double security.” (Id.)

We’ve destroyed the ability for the different governments to control each other with our democracy. What nobody seems to understand anymore is that we destroyed this “double security” when we began to democratize our Republic with our unconstitutional winner-takes-all presidential elections beginning in 1824 and with our democratic senatorial elections in 1913. These two changes destroyed the “double security,” and the states completely lost their ability to control the national government. These two changes took the power and placed it into the hands of the political parties who have been controlling the national government ever since that time.

If we want to restore our Republic, we will restore these two changes and destroy the corrupt two-party political system and return power to control the national government back to the states. The politicians are trying to pass the SAVE Act as a distraction so you won’t realize that it is the political parties who are destroying our Republic.

Carma's avatar

The save act REQUIRES

-A passport

-ID and ORIGINAL birth certificate

-If a woman has changed her name after marrying she must also have her wedding certificate.

Carma's avatar

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982!

This is not a real problem. It’s a voter suppression bill.

Alan's avatar

As long as mail in ballots are acceptable, the SAVE America act is a complete waste of time.

c Anderson's avatar

One step at a time.

Alan's avatar

Not requiring id at the polling place is very minor compared to mail in ballots given in person voting has become rare in many states.

c Anderson's avatar

I live in a state with a trifecta of Democrats ruling. I agree with you. We can’t even get the Rinos to stand up for ID. The SAVE Act won’t help in my state, but it will in others.

Tirion's avatar

The Republic was sidelined by The Act of 1871 and subsequently dissolved - along with the bankrupt federal government - by The Emergency Banking Act 1933 (48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress June 5, 1933. Executive Order 6073, 6102, 6111, 6260; Senate Report 93-549, pgs 187 & 594, 1973).

Kenn Goodwin's avatar

Not to worry the lunatic left already has plans.