The SAVE Act: a poll tax by another name

[applegrove]

The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.

Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.

#StopTheSaveAct

— Nick Knudsen (@nickknudsenus.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T22:26:21.759Z

[Easterncedar]

1. We need to shout about this!

It’s so wrong. Better that a few crooks or fools vote twice than make it hard for any citizen to vote at all. Much less millions.

[Ilikepurple]

2. Yes, the SAVE Act and its intent are in danger of getting lost in the news cycle.

This story just doesn’t seem to grab people. It’s seems rare to just happen on to a news story about it on the internet. Some will say that they can find stories using google or that they come up in their tailored feed, but that’s really not my point. People have to know to care and as with many things repetition and multiple views ar3 need to engage the viewer. I feel for Nancy Guthrie and her family not just because I’m a sympathetic human being but also because the coverage is relentless. This issue seems pretty far down the media list. I’m not sure how I can help make it bigger other than share my thoughts and click on the articles I do find.

[Bayard]

3. I fired off more emails to my two worthless KY senators again tonight

You never know when Rand Paul is going to turn contrarian again and vote for the right thing.

[applegrove]

4. Great for you.

[Easterncedar]

5. Gotta hope - and write! Well done

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Also it's discriminatory against women's suffrage.

With only a few known exceptions that I know of, men don't change their surnames when they marry.

It's unconstitutional as a violation of the 19th Amendment. (The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, prohibits denying the right to vote based on sex, effectively granting women suffrage after decades of activism, though racial barriers to voting for women of color persisted until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It states, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".)

Constitution trumps federal statute.