RE: Help me understand why anyone would be opposed to proving citizenship in order to vote
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Actually four House Democrats voted for it: Ed Case of Hawaii; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Jared Golden of Maine; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.
It’s probably just red meat for MAGA. I doubt it will be able to get 60 votes in the Senate. Cloture is a high hurdle, and Chuck Schumer just said “It is dead on arrival in the Senate.”
Maybe, just maybe, protecting the integrity of voting is not the real thrust of SAVE. It is entirely coincidental that Republicans tend to do well when barriers to voting are erected but tend to lose when voting has few barriers.
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Thanks, I thought I would be able to count on you to point this out :)
If it is dead on arrival in the Senate I am sure we are going to be hearing about this come time for re-election, over and over and over and over again.
I see a lot of good comments on this, but I don't see anyone actually explaining WHY the Dems are opposed to it, just that they ARE.
I guess the main reason is because of the framing. Republicans frame it as protecting the security of elections; Democrats frame it as voter suppression. Republicans essentially tend to see voting as a privilege; Democrats see voting as a right.
I think even you can admit that much of this is political posturing though, wouldn't you agree? I don't think any reasonable person can suggest that preventing non citizens from voting in US elections is a bad thing. But I get what you mean in that there is almost certainly some sort of ulterior motive for having this bill in the first place.
Cloture is a hurdle, until Schumer is presented with something he want's or witholding of something he needs for his District, then he will come to the table. The Save Act, might not be the particular Bill that anyone wants to burn capital over.
Some of the tougher bills will come closer to the midterms for the purposes of posturing. Americans have short memories, so recency is an important component of political theater.
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