SOME Democrat PLEASE put forth a LEGIT Voter ID bill.

[Ms. Toad]

34. First, I was quoting the advertisements the OP was afraid would be run against Democrats,

Everything in the parentheses is a direct quote from the OP. I was not stating the Democratic position, I was restating the portion of the OP I was addressing.

Second, the law already limits voting in federal elections and for federal positions to citizens.

The issue (in the SAVE act) is whether every voter should be required to provide documents to prove their citizenship - not their identity, but their citizenship.

Many older citizens, and some younger ones) cannot do so because their birth was never registered, secondary documents like baptismal registries were destroyed, because they changed their name and do not have access to the legal documents proving the changes, because they are housing insecure and proving citizenship wasn't top on their minds in picking which of their belongings to take with them when they had to move out of their home to someplace much smaller, the car, it the street.

Some, but not all, could prove citizenship if they had money and time to cry certified copies of all the documents needed (making it simply a poll tax). Others couldn't prove it even with all the time and money on the world, because the documents no longer (or never) existed.

This disenfranchisement of citizens who have been voting all their lives will fall most heavily on the elderly, especially women, poor, and elderly.

Limiting citizenship to voters (as we already do for federal elections) is very different from requiring citizens (many of whom have been voting for decades) to prove their citizenship using documents which may not even exist for some - and would be very expensive to obtain, for others.