He is now threatening not to sign any other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms.

“I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.

The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, requires individuals to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. If passed, the legislation would also administer criminal penalties for election officials who register anyone lacking the required documents.

As my colleague Ari Berman wrote in February, the bill would potentially block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. The bill may impact millions of US citizens in other ways: tens of millions of women who took their partner’s last name, for example, may not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name could find it more difficult to register.

  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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    13 hours ago

    Great, so how is that going to help Mrs. Jones who can’t afford sufficient notary proof of her marriage to explain why she isn’t called Miss Smith, resulting in the polling place refusing to give her a ballot?

    Voting is an administrative procedure, so rigging an election can be done purely procedurally. Once the election is rigged, no amount of weapons used defensively will unrig it. Maybe they will send ICE to pick people out of the line in Latino neighborhoods, but they don’t need to in order to win. And even if they send ICE, it wouldn’t help if the people with guns stand around gormlessly as they drag people into vans, or as they themselves get arrested.

    I suppose them doing more than that wouldn’t be the worst inciting incident for a civil war, but again: it’s perfectly possible for the election to get rigged without violence.