SAVE Our Elections With Voter ID
Why is it that Democrats oppose what most voters support? That’s a rhetorical question.
“The bottom line is voter suppression,” opined Sunny Hostin of “The View” while discussing a voter ID bill in Congress. “It’s sort of a vestige of, I think, um, post-slavery laws, where they— where black people had to, um, prove their right to vote, and oftentimes they couldn’t vote.” The descendent of slave owners added, “It also affects women — women that are married” if documents differ on a last name. “Less [sic] voter ID laws, uh, allows more people to vote, and most democracies do it that way. We’re the only ones that really don’t do it that way.”
That’s false. Many, if not most, nations worldwide require some form of ID to vote in person. Many U.S. states do not require any identification to cast a ballot, and Democrats have pushed federal legislation to prohibit voter ID. (That’s to say nothing of the fact that eight states and DC automatically send hard-to-verify bulk-mail ballots to all registered voters.)
Also, for the record, if you want to attend a taping of “The View,” you will need a valid government-issued ID. I guess they don’t want black people or married women in the audience. To be sure, I’d guess that the vast majority of “View” audience members are unmarried women, but I digress.
You must present a valid ID to buy alcohol, open a bank account, apply for a job, or apply for government income redistribution schemes like food stamps, welfare, and Medicaid. The list of things that require an ID is long.
But for some reason, Hostin and her Democrat pals don’t want voters to have to present an ID. After four years of an intentional border invasion. I wonder why that might be.
You can bet that if they thought no ID benefited Republicans, they’d think differently.
Democrats are so opposed to voter ID that they will insult black people and women by arguing that they are somehow less capable of getting an ID than white men. Then, after having made such a blatantly racist and sexist argument, they have the unmitigated gall to call Republicans racist and sexist.
It’s not just airhead TV hosts like Hostin. It’s Democrats across the board. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris issued a strong condemnation of the bill last year.
“The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates,” Hillary Clinton posted on X.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted, “House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don’t have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.”
Evidently, according to Clinton and AOC, married women are uniquely handicapped. Married women must also have difficulty getting jobs.
Now, let me back up to the real news here: The House of Representatives passed Chip Roy’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which adds “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to the 1993 National Voter Registration Act — a.k.a. the “motor voter” law. Senator Mike Lee has introduced companion legislation in the upper chamber.
In short, voters must provide proof of citizenship via a list of acceptable documents, and there are accommodations for married women. States must also remove noncitizens from the rolls. The law aligns with Donald Trump’s March executive order on election integrity.
“ There’s nothing more sacred under the Constitution than ensuring that the people are able to have the voice in the election of the people that represent them in Washington and throughout the country,” Roy said in a floor speech. “Once that is undermined, then people lose faith in the very institutions upon which this is built.”
How many House Democrats value election integrity? Four.
Ed Case (HI), Henry Cueller (TX), Jared Golden (ME), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) voted with all but four Republicans to pass the measure 220-208. Who are those four absentee Republicans? Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Monica De La Cruz (TX), Bob Onder (MO), and David Valadao (CA). We might ask them where they were or why they declined to vote. None has made a public statement.
How many Americans support voter ID requirements? Depending on the poll, anywhere from 70% to 85%, including more than two-thirds of Democrat voters. Translating that to a House vote that, you know, actually represents the people, the SAVE Act should have passed with 453 votes.
“Voting for the SAVE Act … should have been a simple, bipartisan, ‘yes’ vote from all Members of Congress,” said Texas Republican August Pfluger, “but unfortunately, that was not the case.”
What is simple is that Democrats benefit from loose election laws. Otherwise, they’d support election integrity.
Exit video:
The Left’s most racist trope is that minorities are fundamentally incapable of procuring the same voter ID as every other group of Americans. https://t.co/Gcpem8VR9c
— Nate Jackson | Patriot Post (@NatriotJackson) April 11, 2025
