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Senator urges passage of Save America Act to verify voter citizenship and restore confidence in federal elections
Summary
On the Senate floor a lawmaker argued the Save America Act would close verification gaps left by a 2013 Supreme Court interpretation of the NVRA, enable federal–state data cooperation, and include affidavits and fail-safes to avoid disenfranchising eligible voters.
A lawmaker on the Senate floor urged colleagues to pass the Save America Act, saying the bill is needed to strengthen verification of voter citizenship and protect the legitimacy of federal elections. The speaker framed the measure as correcting what they described as a statutory gap left by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council and by long-standing DMV registration practices.
The lawmaker said the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA, the "Motor Voter" law) created DMV-based registration that relies on self-attestation and that the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision prevented states from requiring documentary proof of citizenship on NVRA forms. "A prohibition without a reliable verification process is an incomplete safeguard," the lawmaker said, adding that the bill "would close that gap by strengthening verification mechanisms, encouraging consistent cooperation, and ensuring that federal election rules are backed…
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