Trump order, SAVE Act do not serve voters
Whether coming from Congress through legislation or from the Oval Office through executive orders, Americans should be wary of solutions that are scrambling to find a problem.
Especially when dubious fixes pose threats to the most foundational rights of Americans.
That’s the case with the recent passage in the House of the SAVE Act — Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — and in President Trump’s issuance last month of an executive order, both of which seek to require proof of citizenship for those registering to vote, among other rummaging-around-for-problems provisions.
Still smarting from the fact-checks and clear evidence that the 2020 presidential election — in the words of the Trump administration’s then-head of cybersecurity that the election — “was the most secure in American history,” Trump and Republicans in Congress have dredged up old and unfounded fears of ineligible voters and election fraud to justify new regulations that, rather than making elections more secure, threaten to disenfranchise legitimate voters, discourage eligible Americans from registering to vote, and make voter registration and elections more cumbersome and expensive for states to run.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-trump-order-save-act-do-not-serve-voters/