Since the Senate debate began on the SAVE America Act, the Democrats have spent an awful lot of time denouncing the legislation as part of a sinister Republican conspiracy whose ultimate goal is to prevent legitimate voters from casting ballots in federal elections. Yet when they describe the provisions to which they object, every Democrat senator has misrepresented those sections of the bill or made absurd claims about their effect on the electorate. Even when they are talking about the legislation’s actual language, they lie about their own positions.
Here are ten of their biggest fibs:
Lie # 1 – The SAVE America Act is a “voter suppression” bill
This is the most frequently repeated lie about the SAVE America Act. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for example, describes his party’s position on the SAVE America Act as follows: “Our objection as Democrats is not to a photo ID… our objection is it’s a voter suppression bill.” No one in the Senate is fooled by that, of course, so Republicans decided to call his bluff. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) requested unanimous consent to pass a bill with only a single provision—that voters must produce a photo ID when they cast a ballot. The Democrats blocked it.
Lie # 2 – The SAVE America Act is unpopular
Schumer continued to lie not only about what the legislation does but who supports it. Standing in the well of the Senate he claimed, “Voter suppression. That is what the Republican Senate is wasting our time on: pushing a voter suppression bill that most Americans do not support, a bill that appeals to only the most fringe elements of the MAGA base.” In reality, according to a CBS/YouGov poll conducted last week, 80 percent of American adults said they favored a law that requires individuals to produce a valid ID before they are permitted to vote.
Lie # 3 – The SAVE America Act would force everyone to re-register to vote
Another lie the Democrats have been peddling about the bill was parroted by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) during an appearance on “Morning Joe.” Kelly claimed that if the bill passed, “Everybody would have to re-register to vote. Think about that 80-year-old senior who doesn’t have a passport or can’t find their birth certificate.” But as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) correctly wrote in a response on X, “Nothing in the SAVE America Act requires currently registered voters to re-register. Senate Democrats should read the bill before attempting to describe what it does.”
Lie # 4 – The SAVE America Act isn’t needed
Another common whopper the Democrats tell is that a bill that prevents non-citizen voting isn’t necessary because it’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asks, “Who’s going to commit this kind of fraud knowing that they could be in prison for five years?”
Well, perhaps people like Mahady Sacko, an illegal alien from Mauritania who has been voting in our elections since 2008 according to the Department of Homeland Security. Or Muhammad Muzammal and Muhammad Shakeel, noncitizens who registered to vote and then voted in the 2020 election in New Jersey. Or 19 foreign nationals who voted in the 2016 election.
Democrats like to claim that cases such as these are “exceedingly rare.” But the reality is that it is impossible to know just how widespread noncitizen voting is. There has been no verification of citizenship during voter registration in decades, meaning that there is no way for authorities to identify and track noncitizen voting in most cases.
Yes, there are currently penalties for noncitizen voting. But it is also astoundingly easy for noncitizens to register to vote and cast ballots, and it is nearly impossible to prevent that sort of fraud – and in Democrat states at least, they don’t have any interest in preventing it in the first place. The SAVE America Act finally adds enforcement and accountability mechanisms to laws already on the books.
Lie # 5 – The SAVE America Act would force every voter to get a passport
Yet another Democrat lie about the SAVE America Act involves passports. On Friday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) claimed, “Under the Republican SAVE Act, millions of Americans who don’t have a passport could have to pay $165 just to register to vote. Kind of like a poll tax, isn’t it?”
Sen. Lee also debunked this absurd claim on X, pointing out, “This simply isn’t true. Read the SAVE America Act before you mischaracterize it. Starting with the text beginning on line 22 of page 12—which makes clear that this argument amounts to paranoid fantasy.” There are plenty of other forms of ID that would qualify to register to vote besides a passport.
Lie # 6 – The SAVE America Act disenfranchises married women
Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) expands on the passport canard by claiming, “The SAVE Act goes further—demanding documents that millions of Marylanders don’t have, including married women who changed their last name and those without passports.”
Democrats claim that because married women’s birth certificates won’t match their married name, they won’t be able to vote under the SAVE America Act. But one additional document – a marriage certificate – would allow them to register all the same, just like a marriage certificate is required to obtain a new passport and REAL ID. The bill also provides a process (referenced above by Sen. Lee) for those who can’t provide proof: They can sign a sworn affidavit confirming their citizenship status.
Lie # 7 – The SAVE America Act prevents black people from voting
This false claim that the SAVE America Act disenfranchises married women inevitably leads to the equally false assertion that it somehow prevents blacks and Hispanics from voting. Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) stood in the Senate on Friday and defiantly declared, “In this moment I stand here and say, No, to Jim Crow 2.0.”
This is a grotesque combination of demagoguery and historical ignorance. The implication is that non-white Americans are too stupid to figure out how to show an ID to register to vote. Also worth noting: Jim Crow was wholly conceived and perpetrated by Democrats – not Republicans.
Lie # 8 – The SAVE America Act is a federal takeover of elections
Rep. Pete Aguilar, the head of the House Democratic Caucus, has accused the SAVE America Act of being “a federal takeover of state and local elections” – a claim parroted by other leading Democrats.
But the SAVE America Act is remarkably limited in scope – it merely requires that people are citizens when they register and who they say they are when they vote. States will still run their own elections. If anything, the SAVE America Act is designed to stop efforts by Democrat states to corrupt federal elections by dismantling any and all election security safeguards.
Ironically, it was Aguilar and his Democrat compatriots who most recently attempted a federal takeover of elections. Back in 2021, the party advanced two bills, the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would have, among other things, mandated universal mail-in voting and ballot harvesting nationwide and instituted a blanket ban on Voter ID.
Lie # 9 – The SAVE America Act actually undermines election integrity
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) offered voters one of the most absurd conspiracy theories on the SAVE America Act: “Democrats are fighting to secure our elections & uphold the Constitution. Republicans are actively cutting election security safeguards & trying to give Trump unprecedented power over elections in all 50 states.”
This not merely false, it is hypocritical. This is precisely what the Democrats attempted when they last held a governing trifecta in 2021 and 2022. Had they succeeded in passing the “For the People Act,” all U.S. elections would have been controlled by the DNC.
Lie # 10 – The SAVE America Act will “destroy democracy”
Perhaps the most unhinged Democrat objection to the SAVE America Act came from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) who insisted that the Senate must “Say NO, NO to a bill that would so fundamentally and far-reachingly would undermine, in fact, destroy our democracy. It may sound like an exaggeration, but it is the truth.”
There’s no point in responding to this nonsense by asking Democrats to explain how a bill that prevents noncitizen voting would destroy our democracy. It obviously wouldn’t, but Blumenthal isn’t concerned with facts.
Ironically, some of the claims made by Democrats inadvertently admit that illegal aliens are voting. On Friday, for example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer contended that the SAVE America Act wasn’t really about voting: “Do not listen to the Republican talking points about voter ID. That’s a ruse. Underneath the surface, the SAVE [America] Act is a voter purge bill.” He was referring to its requirement (page 17, line 24) that states remove non-citizens from their voter rolls. Why would Schumer object to “purging” these ineligible voters from the rolls?
The answer is obvious. The Democrats can no longer win elections if only American citizens are permitted to vote. There is no other explanation for their opposition to a bill that enjoys the support of 80 to 90 percent of Americans – including a majority of rank-and-file Democrat voters. But their “leadership” clearly believes that, if illegal aliens are prevented from voting, it will be the death knell of the Democrat Party.
David Catron is a Senior Editor at the American Spectator. His writing has also appeared in PJ Media, the American Thinker, the Providence Journal, the Catholic Exchange and a variety of other publications.
Great article that the American people and voter need to read and understand. Pass this on to those who need it to understand what the Democrats in the Senate are falsely talking about. The states that have Democrat representation in the Senate, their respective constituents need to bombard them with emails or texts for them to get off their behinds and do their jobs — STOP ACTING LIKE BABIES.
The one thing that all Americans need to understand, is something the article writers of AMAC, do not seem to, we are not dealing with TRUE Democrats, like JFK, or JC, we are dealing with TRUE COMMUNIST, once ever one fully realizes that and understands it, I think we can start making some inroads against these unpatriotic TRAITORS, of our GOD given CONSTITUTION.
What is so very sad is that we have to pass an act to keep our federal election limited to only American citizens, when they should already be protected. What is so very pathetic is that the liberals and some RINOS are fighting against this act.
Basically ALL the dems do is lie. To say that it’s difficult for married women to get the necessary documentation to vote is LUDICROUS! My wife and I were married February 27th 2026. With a bit of a wait in our local SSA office she got the name change taken care of and received her new Social Security card in a week. Another trip to Motor Vehicles and within 20 minutes she had her new drivers license. Every legal citizen can do the exact same! The habitual liars need to SHUT UP and try to be REAL Americans!
Schumer actually said it out loud a while back. This bill would remove tens of millions of voters from voting rolls! And that’s the real issue. The tens of millions of dead people, people who moved, people in prison, and people here illegally, would become ineligible to vote. That means all those ineligible people won’t automatically get mail in ballots in states like Oregon and Colorado. And all those ineligible people won’t be able to request mail in ballots. And all those ineligible people can’t show up to vote in states that don’t require photo IDs to vote. The democrat argument is not about photo IDs. It’s about the ability to cheat.
As usual, more lies from our Damnedocrat comrades. They are scared shitless of this Bill, because it would remove one huge impact on theIr ability to rig elections. Please, Please wake up people! Cant you see how they are taking over by supporting EVERYTHING that is evil, disgusting, repugnant and immoral, just the kind of living in total filth thar they have brainwashed you innocent darllings into craving… PERVERTED SEX, DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND THE GOD OF ALL, COMMUNISM. BEWARE CITIZENS, THERE WILL BE A JACK-BOOTED STORM TROOPER OR A LUNATIC TOWEL HEAD COMING TO YOUR DOOR SOON TO TAKE YOUR OATH OF OBEDIENCE.
The actions of the Democratic Party reflect the rages of Mao Tse-Tung, which Bill O’Reilly describes on page 168 of his book: Confronting Evil: “The Five Olds” –old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas, old thinking. When 80% of the electorate votes to have voter I.D., indicating just plain old, American Common sense, and the ideologically driven Democrats strive against it, you can truly call them or label them: Marxists, because that is exactly how they are thinking and acting. They surely would be railed against by President Calvin Coolidge for ignoring the precepts of the Declaration of Independence. 1. all men are created equal; 2. The citizens are endowed with inalienable rights; 3. that government derives its just powers from consent of the governed. The Democrats have no idea what these words mean.
Pray people pray and do as the Lord would have you do I continue to pray Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done
#11. The Left can’t win without cheating!
The democrats want all their imported votes to count. Come one come all. Absentee ballots are welcome from all countries. BALLOT STUFFING IS A LEGAL FORM OF VOTING.
#4, it’s already illegal for non citizens to vote.
So lets look at this a bit deeper. Many places, like San Francisco allow illegals to register AND vote for local ordinances. But there’s a problem here. How many places print a separate local ordinance ballot and a separate State/Federal candidate/issues ballot? I’ll bet the answer is zero. So even though illegals may only be “allowed” (wink wink) to vote on local issues, they’re getting the full ballot and can “accidentally” vote on state/federal issues and candidates.
And to dive deeper, many states like California (if memory serves) require automatic voter registration with every new drivers license. In those states, you don’t need a birth certificate to obtain a license. And when the license is obtained, they back door the person into the voting roll database.
This writer is spot on. Ask Schumer what is so terribly wrong with purging non citizens from voting? This the USA not Mexico. I can’t vote there and they not be able to vote here.Dems stop your constant lying.
That was actually a totally unnecessary article. If you know Democrats they lie about everything, and they can never win unless they can cheat. That could have been a really short article. Voter ID would stop them from cheating and they would never win again..
The democrats have lied in the past and are getting better and better the last 20 years to the point that people who have been in the senate for 40 years are all of a sudden supporting all these lies. Schumer and Durbin should know better. But their election depends on if they follow Soros ‘s mandates. For Soros’s money and the WEF in Davos, you know the world’s billionaires, are running the democrats. It’s not about democracy it is not about blacks being disenfranchised. They want power over the elections with mail in ballots and no oversight who is voting. Years ago legal immigrants had to register every year, when you moved you had to notify the Immigration dept of that fact. Now they come in they vote. Many Americans see no difference between those who come here legally or illegally. There is a big difference. Legal immigrants have been vetted for their background, their health and reason why they want to come here. They have to speak English and swear allegiance to the country. Walking across the border in 300 dollar pair of sneakers and not a dime in your pocket and no ID is not immigrating. That is trespassing. Take the riches from that country and when the authorities are closing in they start running and have the citizens kill those authorities because these people come from poor countries. Really now. Some paid the Cartels 10K and up to get them here. Don’t feel bad for these people. Think about those that send their kids here alone who were sold into slavery or pedophilia. 350,000 kids Biden lost. Nobody is demonstrating against that. ICE is finding those kids. Never here any truth about that from the legacy media. A Loyola student gets shot by a Venezuelan criminal and a Chicago city councilwoman says “wrong place, wrong Time”. Really now. If this criminal hadn’t been let into this country by Biden and let go by a judge for a previous crime this beautiful lady would still be alive. Her parents would still have their daughter.
dems cheat that is the reason they don’t want HONEST elections
A….HOLE DEMORATS ANYWAY OR THING TO CHEAT
Too bad the LAMESTREAM media never actually describe the bill in their coverage! They simply parrot the LIES of their ideological brothers in Congress! They all work for the “father of lies” so this is not a big surprise! GOP and MAGA should run some ads [if that is possible[ to debunk the amoral DIMMs’ charges.
Looks like the liberal Ten Commandments
My wife and I had to renew our licenses last summer and decided to go with “Real IDs”, now that California no longer charges more to get one. One of the requirements was a birth certificate (we have both at home and digitized), for her, a marriage certificate (also digitized) and something showing our current home address (you guessed it, digitized).
It took us longer at the DMV (which was maybe 15-20 minutes) than it took me to get all of the documentation together, upload it to the DMV site, finish our applications AND get an appointment to do all this.
So, the DNC talking points memo (repeated by EVERY Democrat congress critter in every public forum) is not only a major canard, but propaganda that Goebbels himself would have been proud to have written!
I don’t always like or agree with some of President Trump’s methods or comments, but he has been and continues to be more effective than all of the Presidents in my lifetime (back to Eisenhower), PUT TOGETHER!!!!
Never vote for a Democrat, and choose your Conservatives wisely!
Anyone with half a brain knows it is not unconstitutional to require ID to vote! Again, the corrupt radical liberal media is spreading all of the lies the Democrats (Communists) are telling. If we didn’t have these deeply biased so-called news organizations lying for the radicals, our country would not be so divided. Since the liberals have made lying the right thing to do, our society has been getting more corrupt each year.
The last time I went to a MLB game, I had to show a picture ID to buy a beer! I had to provide a picture ID when I went to the emergency room in my local hospital. I had to show a picture ID to register at a hotel. So if getting a picture ID is so difficult to vote, I am forced to believe it is also too difficult for one to buy a beer, stay in a hotel or get emergency medical care. Yikes, the economy of the nation would dry up!!!
If this article is an indication of the Democratic leadership’s intelligence, then the party is in deeper trouble than we thought.
I fail to understand how this is voter suppression effort to block democratic voters. The bill affects both parties equally; democrats and republicans are both equally required to provide legal ID. So what’s the problem Dems?
Revelation 21:8- “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and ALL LIARS shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” The Dems need to quit the caterwauling, and quit playing games.
As a dedicated member of the 80%, I will actively oppose ANY politician who votes against the SAVE Act. Fortunately, all my legislators support it.
What else can a Democrat do but lie, cheat and steel (alwith some republican rhinos)
Of course the news media is one of their tools)
Excellent Article, the ONLY forgotten Item WAS the ACTUAL LAW OF THE LAND in the 14th Amendment that dictates “voter ID” in enumerating citizens of a required age (male citizens of 21 years, later modified by Amendments 19 and 26 to include females and lower the age to 18) are the eligible voters for all Elected positions Federally and at the State level, Executives, Legislators and Judges. The 14th also HAS a PENALTY for any State that ABRIDGES IN ANY WAY an eligible voter’s vote (again citizen and age ID) whereby a State’s representation SHALL (“automatic”) be reduced by proportion of the “abridged” votes to the total of eligible voters in that State, THEREBY REQUIRING a citizen question as well as a voter question on the Census for EACH State ALSO already Constitutional enumerated “required” law. ODDLY, EVERY Congressperson is sworn to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution, yet ALL those voting against the citizen ID requirement are “rebelling” against it—See Amendment 14, section 3: “any official having taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and then rebels against the SAME is “ineligible” for any office civil or military under the United States”. SO MUCH for oath, duty, and the LAW.
When Democrat/ Socialists speak, it’s all deception, lies, deny, blame the Republicans, and obstruct. They will never understand that ALL OF US (80%+ U.S.A.) see them for who they are, PURE EVIL! Those that don’t see it are part of the problem (20%-).
Lilliputians are doing all they can to tie Gulliver in knots, he is one man, they are many, but sadly only incompetent liars, like kids trying to cheat on exams. No character, integrity or ability to lead, pathetic little liars with the ability to do irreparable damage, could this be sadder, how can any voter stand them, little mice roaring like lions.
Saw a list of the things you need an ID to perform task. It was 3 long columns-about 40 items; see a doctor, board a bus or plane, use your credit cards, and on and on. Only thing one doesn’t need id for is walking and voting.
Been lies day 1
The Democratic Party and their allies are all liars, thrives, murders, and enemies to America and the American people and taxpayer!
Again, its our so called “media”, which does not inform. Thanks to AMAC and about three media outlets, we can get the truth. No existing registered voter, needs a passport, to vote. I will happily show my ID, which is used at the pharmacy, library, and so many other outlets on a daily basis.
How many of these fools with all their absurd objections actually went to school and how many actually finished and graduated? Did they use the online method and who actually did the work? I watched one person get their daughter to do their work for them so they could pass. Think about it! How educated are they really.
Thank you for this very great article. It proves just how out of touch these Democrats are from the people of this country. Don’t vote for them for any office! Vote them “OUT”!
I love this article. It tells the truth about Save America Act. The Democrats just want to secure their illegal election results all across the United States. This Act will also stop any from voting more than once. I am all for this Save America Act. I know elections have been having illegal ballots being counted.
The democ rats of today are far from the democ rats of many years ago.I am eighty-seven years old and remember when democ rats and Republicans were both concerned about making AMERICA better,but then something happened and the democ rats went far left.That is about the time that they had to import illegals to get elected.
the save act is the only stopgap method to stop dems. and state run election commision from illegal,non citizens from voting. one rule ,method for all.
Remember dems. brought in illigals for one purpose to enable dems. to create a socialist,dem. controlled government. The other name is communism. remember this when you vote NOVEMBER and beyond.
What a terrific article. Now, if we just had one that simply listed “if you have these documents…you can vote, and a column beside that list of if you were already registered but have any changes you need….to vote or re-register, or a “sworn affidavit to…”. Many might find it helpful in its simplicity.
Mega-corrupt, habitually lying, evil DemoRATS are not only America’s ENEMIES WITHIN, they are the lowest form of life within the human species.
Just saw that a Democrat just flipped a seat in Mara Largo Florida where Trump resides. I have seen a few special elections going to Democrats. It’s starting to look rough for Republicans in the mid terms . I am thinking the GOP is slipping on their stance on issues. There seem to be no backbone any more to fight. I hope I’m wrong in all this
I can’t get my sons to read this article. They have both loudly said to me read the bill!! We have. You will not be able to vote if this thing passes. I laughed!!! I am old,set in my ways and MAGA ALL THE WAY!!!! this makes them very upset. As I have said before DJT is by far the best president in my lifetime. At one time I was on the democratic side. Then I had a wake-up call. It was the lie of VIETNAM. Anyway that is for another time. I am so glad we are blessed by God Almighty. I am thankful that our country is so beautiful and prosperous. The Marxist regime think that it would be best for all of us to work hard turn over our wealth and be thankful to have nothing but what they deal out.. that life is not for me.MAGA MAGA MAGA
Is anyone really surprised that the Democrats aren’t pushing honest voting? If honest voting takes place in America, the democrats may never win another election. That is of course, unless … they began to campaign telling the truth, about their merits and their intentions (something that would benefit a lot of Republican politicians as well.). For America, the SAVE act, can save America … Voting against the SAVE act, means business as usual in Washington … lie, cheat, steal … lie, cheat, steal.
It all boils down to TRUTH #1: It keeps democrats from cheating!
A great article and a frightening reminder that the democrat party in America is the most insidious threat to the safety and security of citizens. If they regain power, all of us will suffer from their socialist Marxist policies, like a newly reopened wide open border.
How many people can visit the local office of their Senator with a pack of Depends and a note stating the don’t want the Senator to leave the Senate floor, even for a restroom break, until the SAVE act is passed?
I don’t believe the Dems will ever go along with this. I believe they know they can only win with continued voting without ID and whatever mechanism(s) they may have in place in longstanding Democrat districts to guard against thwarting the end of those mechanisms. Unfortunately, I don’t believe, enough of the public at large sees or understands that.
Over the past 10 years, every Democratic leader has made the claim that we need to protect our voting process, but now that their ox is going to be gored, they have selective amnesia. The more they protest, the more it makes you wonder what it is they are protecting. This article is such an indictment that I don’t know how they can live with themselves. Of course, they would never see the article because it appears in a conservative publication. I would say some conservative politician’s need to use this as talking points.
The SAVE Act is just common sense, because even one non citizen vote can make a difference.The Democrat lies are insulting, and telling at the same time.Senator Chris Murphy, was on tv, stating that the people who the Democrats,care about most, are the undocumented immigrants.
That validates what I already suspected, that the Democrats don’t care about the American people, only regaining power, through,any means possible.