Full list of Democrats who voted for the GOP voter ID bill

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act passed on Wednesday by a vote of 221-198.

In total, 216 republicans and five Democrats voted in favor of the bill, while 198 Democrats voted against the measure.

In May, representative Chip Roya texas republican, introduced the SAVE Act, which would require those registering to vote to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. It is already illegal for non-citizens to register to vote or vote in federal elections.

The bill had 104 Republican co-sponsors, including top House Republicans such as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Majority Leader Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the chairman of the Republican Conference. Elise Stefanik of New York and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer of Alabama.

On the House floor Wednesday, Roy said, “I dare you [Democrats] vote no against a bill that says only citizens — American citizens — should vote in American elections.”

His comments came after Johnson suggested that House Democrats had planned for it block the SAVE Actwriting in X, before Twitteron Monday: “Why are Democrats so adamantly against ensuring that only American citizens vote in our elections? They want to turn illegal aliens into voters. We need to pass the SAVE Act to prevent that.”

There is no evidence to support claims that dozens of illegal immigrants have voted in past elections or that Democrats plan to collect illegal votes in the upcoming 2024 election.

Here are the 5 Democratic House members who voted for the SAVE Act:

Research published by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 found that in 42 jurisdictions, among the 23.5 million votes tabulated in the 2016 general election, there were 30 incidents of suspicious noncitizen voting, about 0, 0001 percent.

Under this bill, people who want to vote in federal elections must provide identification such as a passport, a valid government-issued photo ID card that shows the applicant's place of birth was in the US, or a military identification card with a american military Service record showing that the applicant was born in the US

Other valid government-issued photo ID cards may be used, but only if presented with other documentation, such as a certified birth certificate.

The bill would also require states to establish programs “to identify persons who are not US citizens using information supplied by specified sources” and remove them from official lists of eligible voters.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says 36 states already require identification to vote. The other 14 states and the District of Columbia have “non-documentary” identification requirements that require voters to verify their identity in other ways, such as signing an affidavit or election book or providing personal information.

In a memo to House Democrats obtained by Axios, Massachusetts Democrat Katherine Clark told her colleagues to “VOTE NO” on the SAVE Act. The memo is known as a whip question, which goes over upcoming measures and tells party members how it wants the leadership to vote.

Clark explained how this bill would burden American citizens who want to vote.

“A REAL ID driver's license, tribal ID, or military ID would be unacceptable unless accompanied by additional documentation, such as a birth certificate or extract from a birth record showing that the applicant was born in the United States,” Clark said. he wrote. “This would be an extreme burden on countless Americans, including military voters, native-born voters, people who have changed their names (including tens of millions of American women), the elderly, the young, the poor and the naturalized citizens”.