🗳️House requires birth certificates to vote despite 21 million lacking them
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H.R. 22 passed the House 220-208 on April 10, requiring birth certificates or passports to register for federal elections—documents that 21 million Americans lack easy access to, according to University of Maryland research.
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Why This Matters
🗳️ Voting Barrier Creation: SAVE Act eliminates voting access for millions of eligible citizens
Passport requirements disproportionately affect naturalized citizens, women who changed names, elderly Americans born before hospital births, and Native Americans on reservations. Kansas' similar law blocked 30,000+ eligible voters.
💰 Taxpayer Cost for Non-Existent Problem: Citizenship requirements cost millions while preventing zero illegal votes
Heritage Foundation documented 24 cases of non-citizen voting out of 1.2 billion votes cast (0.000002%). Expensive solutions to imaginary problems waste public resources.
📋 Volunteer Registration Destruction: Third-party drives cannot verify citizenship documents
Organizations like League of Women Voters would cease voter registration efforts since volunteers cannot access federal databases. Community registration opportunities disappear entirely.
🏛️ Federal vs State Authority: Constitutional tension over election administration
The Constitution gives states power over election procedures, but SAVE Act imposes federal mandates. Republicans abandon "states rights" principles when convenient for voter suppression.
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What margin did the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) pass the House on April 10, 2025?
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According to the Center for American Progress, how many Americans lack a valid passport?
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Which states have the lowest passport ownership rates according to SAVE Act analysis?
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The SAVE Act allows private citizens to sue election officials for what reason?
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How many Americans used online voter registration in the 2022 election cycle?
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Arizona's citizenship requirement currently blocks how many residents from federal elections?
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The SAVE Act would require updating voter registration for which routine changes?
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The SAVE Act would eliminate online voter registration systems.
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The SAVE Act would require states to purge existing voter rolls.
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