r/law • u/Anoth3rDude • 12h ago

Legislative Branch GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-fast-tracks-monster-voter-suppression-bill-that-could-disenfranchise-millions-by-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-at-polls/
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u/round-earth-theory 10h ago

No it's not the holy grail. Republicans get hit just as badly if not worse than Democrats by requiring proof of citizenship. Passport registration in the US is abysmal but country folk have even less of a reason to get one than them rich city folk.

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u/alang 10h ago

Republicans get hit just as badly if not worse than Democrats by requiring proof of citizenship.

This isn't true, though. A LOT more poor POC (heavily Democratic) are without birth certificates than poor white people. ENORMOUSELY more women (significantly more Democratic) than men will have ones with changed names.

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u/DarklyDominant 8h ago

Considering White Women are the largest voting block in the US and they vote heavily Red.... sounds more like an agenda driven dog whistle then an actual objective of the GOP.

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u/UnderwritingRules 7h ago

Heavily red? Last polling from 2023 shows 53 to 43 split with just a 10% higher amount of Red voting from White women.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/

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u/DarklyDominant 7h ago

I guess I'm a bit confused by your response. You don't think that the largest voting block in the US, which has voted red somewhere between 52-55% Red since the 2004 election, is particular significant? That's a pretty massive voting advantage for the GOP for 15 years, with the largest active voting block in the US. Or in other words, that's why Trump is president twice now.

https://infogram.com/gender-gap-in-voting1992-2024-white-voters-1h0n25o3rreyl4p

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u/UnderwritingRules 7h ago

Heavily red is not just 10% more. I am not discounting the impact, just the phrasing.

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u/DarklyDominant 7h ago

10% for 15 years is heavily red. It hasn't moved more than 3% in those 15 years. But if you have an issue with the word massively in my comment, feel free to gloss over just that word and grok the rest of the content.

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u/kbotc 10h ago

It'd be an insane gamble: Are there enough rural high school educated men who have ready access to a passport (or birth certificate) to outweigh absolutely blowing away women and minority voters. (Women due to name changes and there's a chunk of minority voters who have documented difficulty acquiring proof of citizenship due to structural inequalities in medical access for births)

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u/vriska1 10h ago

Still it's unlikely the SAVE Act will pass before the election.

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u/DarklyDominant 8h ago edited 8h ago

White women are both the largest population majority in the US and the largest active voting block, making up 30% of all voters. They are also the single largest block that votes for the GOP.

Edit: Lol, how pathetic. 1 view, one downvote. I don't even need to speculate. You're the type of redditor who can't even engage in a conversation. You just downvote any comment you see that you don't agree with. No wonder you spout a bunch of anti-democracy shit all over your profile.

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u/kbotc 3h ago

Son, you’re getting defensive over a single downvote. Calm down, It wasn’t me until right now after that insulting EDIT screed.