That poll merely found 84% support requiring simple photo identification to vote and 83% support providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time.
The SAVE Act would require everyone to show up with proof of citizenship every time they voted, something that most photo IDs do not provide. That would disenfranchise millions of voters. The House version of the bill would to replace that requirement with a directive that states regularly submit their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security, as well as a restrictive photo ID requirement for voting. That would still disenfranchise millions of voters, especially women and the poor. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
Key provisions of the SAVE Act:
●The bill not only requires proof of citizenship, but also proof of residence in order to register. This could block even more Americans from voting. Roughly 9 percent of the population has moved within a state in the past year, but many will not update their driver’s licenses until they expire.
●The bill would require photo ID to vote, providing a narrow list of acceptable IDs more restrictive than the voter ID laws in every state but Ohio. For example, the bill prohibits the use of student IDs (even those issued by state universities), and accepts tribal IDs only with an expiration date, even though many tribal IDs do not contain them.
●The legislation would mandate voter roll purges every 30 days, placing enormous burdens on election officials and ending the 90-day quiet period that protects voters from being mistakenly thrown off the rolls right before Election Day.
●The bill would prohibit universal mail voting, requiring all mail voters to submit an application in order to receive a mail ballot. This would end the longstanding principal method of voting in eight states and Washington, DC.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
Those SAVE Act provisions fly in the face of what Americans want, according to the Gallop poll you cite, which found that 60% favor automatic voter registration, whereby citizens are registered when they do business with state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, and sending absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters. 64% of Americans oppose removing people from voter registration lists if they haven’t voted in any elections in five years and 58% oppose limiting the number of drop boxes or locations for returning absentee ballots.
The SAVE Act is not a "voter ID" bill, it is a voter disenchantment bill.
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