Noncitizen voting and the SAVE Act: The rhetoric vs. the research

The SAVE Act and the politics of fear

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Jared Golden of Lewiston represents Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. This piece was originally published on April 28 in “Dear Mainer,” Rep. Golden’s Substack. It is reposted here in its entirety, with permission. At its best, polit…

GOP's voting reform is paperwork, not a solution

Listen closely to the arguments of the House Republicans pushing the so-called “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act” and you realize they aren’t interested in solving the problem the bill purports to address: non-citizens voting in federal elections.

Demand that senators oppose SAVE Act

By Jodine Mayberry League of Women Voters of Central Delaware County The SAVE Act — Safeguard American Voter Eligibility — is one of those ideas that sounds good but is really terrible. The bill passed the U.S. House April 10 220 -208 on a largely party-line vote. It needs 60 votes to pass the Senate. SAVE’s stated intention is to prevent noncitizens from voting in federal elections, a thing that very rarely happens and has never changed the out…

Noncitizen voting and the SAVE Act: The rhetoric vs. the research

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news from other publications, delivered to your inbox every Saturday.Everyone’s talking about noncitizen voting as if it’s a big thing. Some prominent publ…

Editorial: SAVE Act would do far more harm than good for election integrity

The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Meadville Tribune.

Reporting From Alaska- It appears Dan Sullivan and his staff have not read the voter-suppression bill he co-sponsored

Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third continue to claim that the SAVE Act will not disenfranchise thousands of Alaska voters.But the evidence shows that Sullivan and Begich the Third, signing on with extremists in the Trump party, are wrong. Nicholas the Third attacks the news media, claiming a “small unquestioning fringe” is spreading lies about the bill he voted for.It is undeniable that the Sullivan/Begich measure is a voter suppre…