Schumer Threatens Shutdown So GOP Can’t Stop Voter Fraud
The Federalist reports that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened to shut down the government unless Republicans drop their efforts to secure elections and prevent noncitizens from voting, tying the showdown to the SAVE Act.
Key points:
– The SAVE Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The measure has previously passed the House wiht some Democratic support but is stalled in the Senate.
– Schumer characterized the act as “Jim Crow 2.0,” saying it would disenfranchise millions and that Senate Democrats will oppose any bill containing it. There was discussion that the SAVE Act could be considered as a standalone Senate vote.
– The article argues current federal rules are weak, noting that voters only attest to citizenship by a checkbox on the federal voter registration form, which the piece describes as insecure and prone to error.
– It cites state-level instances and audits that supporters say indicate noncitizens have registered to vote or voted: georgia (Melanie Pickett’s case and other findings), Pennsylvania (thousands of noncitizens registered to vote), Oregon (a handful of noncitizens who voted), and Alabama (several noncitizens found registered, with some allegedly voting).
– The point is that elections can hinge on vrey narrow margins, so tightening election integrity—like preventing noncitizen voting—could be consequential.
– The article is written by Brianna Lyman, an elections correspondent for The Federalist, and highlights related reporting and tags on Schumer, documentary proof of citizenship, election integrity, and the SAVE Act.
Author note:
– Brianna Lyman is identified as the author, with a link to more of her work.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Monday to shut the government down unless Republicans drop their efforts to secure elections and keep noncitizens from voting.
Schumer said in a post on X: “The SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Every single Senate Democrat will vote against any bill that contains it. Speaker Johnson should tell SAVE Act Republicans to stand down or else this shutdown will be on them.”
The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While the House previously passed the legislation (including with the support of four Democrats) it has stalled in the Senate. But as Congress debates a new spending bill ahead of a possible shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested there could possibly be efforts to vote on the SAVE Act as a standalone bill in the Senate.
While noncitizen voting is already illegal, current federal law is largely toothless. Prospective voters check a tiny square box on a federal voter registration form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen. Such an insecure system has led to thousands of noncitizens to either register to vote or even vote.
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Such a system has led to people like Clayton County, Georgia resident Melanie Pickett to vote multiple times despite being a noncitizen. A Bahamian native, Pickett admitted in December that after getting a driver’s license, she started receiving voting-related information in the mail. Pickett said she “maybe” voted three times. Similarly, a Georgia audit found 20 noncitizens registered to vote — nearly half of which cast a ballot in previous elections, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Pennsylvania previously found 11,198 noncitizens to registered to vote despite, as Democrats have made clear, it being illegal for noncitizens to vote, according to the Washington Times. Oregon’s Secretary of State found nine noncitizens who had voted in past elections after discovering “more than 300 noncitizens were erroneously registered to vote.”
Meanwhile, Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen announced in January that his office found 186 noncitizens who were registered to vote, 25 of whom had allegedly cast ballots illegally.
When elections are decided on razor-thin margins, like that of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks who won her 2020 election by just six votes, then every mote matters. But that doesn’t mean that every vote should count — like those cast by noncitizens, which is why the SAVE Act is so important.
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