Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN) with an assist from former Trump spokesliar Kayleigh McEnany lie to the viewers on Fox not “news” about the requirements for proof of citizenship in their vote-suppressing SAVE Act.
We’ve already discussed what this bill does when a version passed in the House last April, and as Ellen explained then:
The House of Representatives passed the Orwellian “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” (SAVE Act) on Thursday. It purports to protect our democracy from the non-existent problem of non-citizen voting. What the bill really does, by requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, is create what Mother Jones’ Ari Berman calls a “five-alarm fire” for legit American voters and for election officials:
Nine percent of American citizens, roughly 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents, according to a study by the Brennan Center and other voting rights groups. Sixty percent of them voted in the 2020 election. Close to 4 million don’t have these documents at all because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.
