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Official title: SAVE America Act (Executive Session)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, we are talking again about the SAVE Act.
This is a simple piece of legislation that focuses on two key ideas: that if you are an American citizen, which is required by law, you just show it. I call that the “trust and verify” portion of the bill.
The 1965 Voting Rights Act begins with the statement “all citizens.” It is already required under Federal law that you have to be a citizen of the United States to vote. We have all agreed on that. There is no one disputing that—Republican, Democrat, Independent. We all agree American citizens are the ones who should decide the future of America.
statute, several years ago, saying: If you go to jury duty and you tell a judge, “I am not eligible to be able to serve on a jury because I am not a citizen of the United States,” in Oklahoma, we then check to see if you are registered to vote. We have found quite a few folks who have told a judge, “I am not a citizen,” but have told the election board, “I want to vote anyway.” Well, that is not legal.
make sure those individuals who have already given sworn testimony that they are not citizens are not also registered to vote. That is not true everywhere across the country. Lots of folks just say: We just trust, but we never verify. We actually don't clean up the voter rolls at all.
Arizona—Arizona has a State law in place right now that says: Every person who registers to vote must also prove their citizenship.
This already exists right now.
This is not crazy policy. This is already happening in some of our States right now, that they have to be able to show they are a citizen.
In Arizona, though, it is a very interesting thing. In Arizona, you can register to vote for a State election or a county election, and you have got to be a citizen. But if you want to vote in a Federal election, you don't have to show that you are a citizen.
in a court case for them, where they established: Oh, no, you have got to show
but you don't have to show that you are an American citizen to vote for the President of the United States.
rights of the individuals in Arizona to be able to vote for their Governor if they are an American citizen, surely, we can do this all over the country.
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