Republicans Push Massive Changes to Voting

[RandySF]

“As President Donald Trump calls for sweeping changes to election law — including saying that Republicans should ‘take over the voting’ — Republicans in Congress are planning to vote this week on the SAVE America Act, which would make massive changes to how Americans vote ahead of November’s midterms,” the Washington Post reports.

“They want to require all Americans to prove they are citizens when registering to vote, and to show an ID when voting in person or by mail, as well as make mail voting more difficult.”


https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/10/republicans-push-massive-changes-to-voting/

[Lovie777]

1. I guess they don't care.................

but they are also hurtung their base as well.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. A lot of people haven't seen their birth certificate in decades

WHO has to prove that? Who asks? I don't recall if you needed it to get a driver's license, but not that I recall. A Passport? I don't remember that either, but I surely didn't require the original (which are a bit expensive to get or replace BTW. Like $35 last time I looked.

Has anyone here ever questioned someone about their birth certificate?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The Cheat and Choke Show-us-your-Papers Act

Soon we'll all be carrying our birth certificates in a steel folder, passport, real ID, and still no one will believe us.

[Emile]

4. Guardians of Pedophiles (GOP) can only win by cheating.

[Jersey Devil]

5. An example of how the SAVE Act could work

After 9/11, it was discovered that some of the 9/11 hijackers had obtained phoney birth certificates from the Hudson County, NJ and the State Div of Motor Vehicles began refusing to accept any birth certificates issued by Hudson County for the renewal of drivers licenses. To renew my license (I was born in Jersey City, Hudson County) I had to physically travel to Trenton (from extreme NE NJ) to the State office of the Bureau of Vital Statistics to obtain a new certificate, bringing all kinds of "proof" with me for them to examine. This took an entire day of driving, waiting on line, etc. Once I received it I had to physically bring it to a DMV office to renew my license, again another day of waiting in line. Hundreds of thousands of NJ drivers (or passport applicants) had to do this and it caused massive backups at the State offices and many drivers simply failed to renew and risk tickets (and vehicle impoundments).

I can only imagine tens of millions in the entire country having to repeat similar processes to obtain certified copies of lost certificates for voting purposes and the hardships it would cause, especially for those unable to take time off from work to do it.

[Takket]

6. Isn't this DOA in the Senate because of the filibuster?

[maxrandb]

7. Save America? More like "save our phony bologna jobs"

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