Save Act: four Democrats join the Republicans to approve the bill that requires the test of citizenship to vote

THE House of representatives has exceeded a measure he would have made request proof of citizenship to register to votean effort to put one of Donald Trump‘S Executive orders election targeting.

The law on the admissibility of American safeguard voters, or Save’s law, approved a vote of 220-208, with four democratic members who joined all the Republicans on Thursday.

The bill sponsored by the Republican representative Chip Roy proposes to change the National Eleter Registration Act to request the States to obtain the test of citizenship in person from people who are recording to the vote or updating their recording of the voters.

The supporters of the voting rights have warned that the measure, if passed into law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters Those who do not have easy access to identification documents and overturn the way states record people to vote online or through automatic or same day recording.

The measure – based on the statements without the foundation of the Gop according to which non -citizens are voting fraudulently in the federal elections – the measure would have an impact in an disproportionate way on women and rural and disabled voters, according to the experts of the electoral law.

“The Chamber has just approved one of the worst of the votes in American history,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at the Nyu Law. “The Senate must stop him. Save’s law will put the vote out of reach for millions of American citizens. He should not become law.”

The Democrats of the Jared Golden house, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Henry Cueller and the case and voted to support.

The president – who continues to do so insist without foundation The widespread voter fraud manipulated the result of the 2020 presidential elections – signed a separately Executive order This, among other things, requires proof of citizenship in the same way when recording to the vote.

Chamber Republicans – with five democrats – has exceeded a version of Save Act In 2024, after Mike Johnson’s speaker joined Trump in Mar-A-Lago To tie the president anti-immigration agenda to “electoral integrity”. Elon Musk He had even suggested that anyone who voted against the bill should be performed for treason. “Those who oppose this are traitors,” he wrote on X at the time. “What is the penalty for the traitors again?”

About 146 million people do not have a passport and 13 million US citizens do not have an access ready to citizenship documents, according to the Brennan Center.

About 69 million married women would not be able to use a birth certificate to demonstrate their identity or the state of citizenship pursuant to the rescue law, according to the Center for American progress.

State Democratic secretaries claimed that the rescue law and the executive order of Trump intervenes in vain in the local electoral administration, threatening while threatening the state and local policies that guarantee that eligible voters cannot participate.

Save’s law would make practically impossible for suitable Americans to register to vote by mail or online, which is allowed in at least 42 states.

It is already illegal for non -citizens to vote in the federal elections and the federal law requires people to sign sworn declarations that verify their citizenship and admissibility. Electoral officials are already able to review the paper path to determine the fraud, but the addition of further citizenship test requirements for the federal-proposal races that have previously been blocked in court-AD

The measure is equivalent to “a hurried power socket to allow politicians to choose their voters instead of electors to elect their politicians,” said the secretary journalists of the Maine Sehenna Bellows before Thursday’s vote.

“We don’t want useless barriers and arbitrary deadlines to be between Vermonters and the right to choose their officials,” added the secretary of state of the Vermont Sarah Copeland-Hanzas.

“It is a tactic of suppression of the voters who is dressed in a sort of reform,” he said.