Republicans shred 'nonsense' Dem claims against Trump-backed voter ID bill
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.
Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democratic claims that their marquee voter ID legislation would wreak havoc on elections in the country.
Congressional Democrats have panned the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act as a tool of voter suppression — saying it's a bill that allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to monitor Americans’ voter information and create barriers for married women to vote, among several other claims.
Along with requiring photo ID to vote, the bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, mandate states to actively verify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, expand information sharing with federal agencies, including DHS, to verify citizenship, and create new criminal penalties for registering noncitizens to vote.
GOP WARNS DEMOCRATS USING DHS SHUTDOWN TO STALL SENATE VOTER ID PUSH
Trump has time and again pushed voter ID, calling the election reforms in the bill a "CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND."
Some of the bill’s strongest proponents fact-checked those claims in interviews with Fox News Digital.
"If you look at what it actually says, rather than what Democrats aggressively and, I believe, disingenuously are arguing right now — they're overlooking the requirements of the SAVE America Act — those requirements are actually really generous," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital. "They're really flexible."
Here’s a closer look at some of the most common claims Democrats have made about the SAVE America Act — and how Republican supporters of the bill are responding.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., routinely has bashed the SAVE America Act as "Jim Crow 2.0" — the segregationist laws of the Deep South largely done away with by the Civil Rights Act.
"It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression," Schumer said earlier in February on the Senate floor.
But Republicans argued that Democrats were being "hypocritical" in their voter suppression charge, particularly when it comes to voter ID.
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., whose home state is one of 36 that either requests or requires a form of photo identification before voting, argued that voter ID laws across the country had no effect on turnout.
"This idea that they're saying that it's going to suppress any vote — it's never done that anywhere," Scott told Fox News Digital. "They said that when Georgia …
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.
Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democratic claims that their marquee voter ID legislation would wreak havoc on elections in the country.
Congressional Democrats have panned the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act as a tool of voter suppression — saying it's a bill that allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to monitor Americans’ voter information and create barriers for married women to vote, among several other claims.
Along with requiring photo ID to vote, the bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, mandate states to actively verify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, expand information sharing with federal agencies, including DHS, to verify citizenship, and create new criminal penalties for registering noncitizens to vote.
GOP WARNS DEMOCRATS USING DHS SHUTDOWN TO STALL SENATE VOTER ID PUSH
Trump has time and again pushed voter ID, calling the election reforms in the bill a "CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND."
Some of the bill’s strongest proponents fact-checked those claims in interviews with Fox News Digital.
"If you look at what it actually says, rather than what Democrats aggressively and, I believe, disingenuously are arguing right now — they're overlooking the requirements of the SAVE America Act — those requirements are actually really generous," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital. "They're really flexible."
Here’s a closer look at some of the most common claims Democrats have made about the SAVE America Act — and how Republican supporters of the bill are responding.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., routinely has bashed the SAVE America Act as "Jim Crow 2.0" — the segregationist laws of the Deep South largely done away with by the Civil Rights Act.
"It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression," Schumer said earlier in February on the Senate floor.
But Republicans argued that Democrats were being "hypocritical" in their voter suppression charge, particularly when it comes to voter ID.
TOM EMMER BLASTS DEMOCRATS' DOUBLE STANDARD ON SAVE ACT: 'THEY REQUIRE PHOTO IDS' AT THEIR OWN DNC
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., whose home state is one of 36 that either requests or requires a form of photo identification before voting, argued that voter ID laws across the country had no effect on turnout.
"This idea that they're saying that it's going to suppress any vote — it's never done that anywhere," Scott told Fox News Digital. "They said that when Georgia …
Republicans shred 'nonsense' Dem claims against Trump-backed voter ID bill
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.
Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democratic claims that their marquee voter ID legislation would wreak havoc on elections in the country.
Congressional Democrats have panned the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act as a tool of voter suppression — saying it's a bill that allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to monitor Americans’ voter information and create barriers for married women to vote, among several other claims.
Along with requiring photo ID to vote, the bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, mandate states to actively verify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, expand information sharing with federal agencies, including DHS, to verify citizenship, and create new criminal penalties for registering noncitizens to vote.
GOP WARNS DEMOCRATS USING DHS SHUTDOWN TO STALL SENATE VOTER ID PUSH
Trump has time and again pushed voter ID, calling the election reforms in the bill a "CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND."
Some of the bill’s strongest proponents fact-checked those claims in interviews with Fox News Digital.
"If you look at what it actually says, rather than what Democrats aggressively and, I believe, disingenuously are arguing right now — they're overlooking the requirements of the SAVE America Act — those requirements are actually really generous," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital. "They're really flexible."
Here’s a closer look at some of the most common claims Democrats have made about the SAVE America Act — and how Republican supporters of the bill are responding.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., routinely has bashed the SAVE America Act as "Jim Crow 2.0" — the segregationist laws of the Deep South largely done away with by the Civil Rights Act.
"It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression," Schumer said earlier in February on the Senate floor.
But Republicans argued that Democrats were being "hypocritical" in their voter suppression charge, particularly when it comes to voter ID.
TOM EMMER BLASTS DEMOCRATS' DOUBLE STANDARD ON SAVE ACT: 'THEY REQUIRE PHOTO IDS' AT THEIR OWN DNC
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., whose home state is one of 36 that either requests or requires a form of photo identification before voting, argued that voter ID laws across the country had no effect on turnout.
"This idea that they're saying that it's going to suppress any vote — it's never done that anywhere," Scott told Fox News Digital. "They said that when Georgia …
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