The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.

The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate.

The House voted 218-213 to pass the SAVE America Act, which experts have said could disenfranchise millions by requiring voters to show documentary proof of citizenship at registration and to provide photo ID when they cast ballots.

Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    343·
    5 hours ago

    To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      8 minutes ago

      Yep. I’ve been asking for months and months where the protests are, and what about general strikes and so on. All I get is “it takes time to coordinate, just you wait” “it’s starting slow but will get up some steam soon” “wait til the mids” “it’s a big country, it’s very difficult to do anything but we will sort it blah fucking blah!”
      It’s all bullshit.

      A fucking failed reality TV star, convicted criminal, idiotic bankruptcy champion, confirmed rapist and deffo child rapist took over the whole of the uNazied States of america in less than a year and 99% of their population did fuck all about it. Fuck and all.

      After decades of them watching action movies whilst stroking their guns and threatening to shoot anyone who encroached their freedoms…yet a fucking orange geriatric paedo went full dictator on them without as much as a whimper. Pathetic.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      7·
      3 hours ago

      Who do you think is saying that?

      I mean, these guys pay good money for propaganda, I’m sure they have people posting shit like that everywhere to ensure people wait

    • KelvarCherry [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      5 hours ago

      That mentality pisses me off. Partially because they’re definitely going to rig them; but more because thousands of people are dying every week. Thousands are being disappeared. How many folks were sent to CECOT? How many people were grabbed off the street. The ICE abductions were the tipping point and tragically we failed. (It didn’t help to have all the libs yelling “DON’T FIGHT BACK”)

      You’re going to sit back and hold a zen zone through 2 years of holocaust? Really? The entitlement of those folks is insane.

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think I’ve seen a single person saying that. Plenty saying that you should vote when mid-terms roll around, but none saying that you shouldn’t be doing anything before or after.