House Democrat leadership is bringing out the so-called ‘big guns’ to opposed a completely reasonable bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting in federal elections by requiring some form of proof of citizenship to vote.
Of course they would.
Here’s more from Axios:
House Democratic leadership is bringing out the big guns against a Republican bill set to be voted on next week that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections, Axios has learned.
House Republicans have made non-citizen voting in federal elections — for which there is no evidence of a widespread phenomenon — a marquee issue going into the 2024 campaign.
The House is set to vote next week on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which would require “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to vote in federal elections.
That could include a passport, a photo ID card that proves a voter was born in the U.S. or another form of photo ID along with supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, the bill says.
The legislation would require non-citizens to be removed from voter registration rolls, require election officials to ask voter registration applicants for proof of citizenship and open them up to legal consequences if they do not.
“Democratic leadership will send its whip team to cajole colleagues into not supporting the legislation”
In a whip question — a roundup of the coming week’s votes with instructions for how leadership wants rank-and-file members to vote — House Minority Whip Katherine Clark’s (D-Mass.) office told House Democrats they are “urged to VOTE NO” on the bill.
That means that Democratic leadership will send its whip team to cajole colleagues into not supporting the legislation.
The bill, Clark’s office said, would “prevent Americans from registering to vote with their drivers’ license alone” and would make a passport the “only acceptable standalone form of identification.”
They added that the bill would create an “extreme burden for countless Americans” and “further intimidate election officials and overburden states’ abilities to enroll new voters.”
This is just like it was when Democrats opposed similar legislation when Obama was president. Obama sicked Eric Holder on states who were passing legislation to require legal identification to vote and virtually all Democrats opposed it, just like now with this federal legislation.
As Stephen Miller writes, “How can any American support a party that wants to flood the ballot box with illegals?”