The GOP’s “latest ploy” to prevent election fraud is “a solution in search of a problem,” said David A. Graham in The Atlantic. President Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill requires voters to prove citizenship with a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. But multiple studies have found that voter fraud is vanishingly rare, and SAVE could disenfranchise millions of Americans who don’t have passports or copies of their birth certificates. That would disproportionately affect older, poorer, and minority voters. The estimated 80% of married women who have changed their last names may also need to provide proof of marriage. In effect, SAVE would act like a poll tax, discouraging voting by creating added cost and time for certain groups. Republicans seem unlikely to get the 60 votes needed to…
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