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Introduced July 29, 2025 by Marjorie Taylor Greene · Last progress July 29, 2025
The bill prioritizes citizenship-based apportionment and stricter federal verification of voter eligibility to enhance perceived election integrity and produce citizenship data, but does so in ways that reduce representation and resources for noncitizen communities, raise privacy and undercount risks in the census, and create new burdens and disenfranchisement risks for vulnerable voters and local administrators.
U.S. citizens: Apportionment and Electoral College allocations would be based on the count of U.S. citizens rather than total population, aligning representation with the citizen voting population.
All U.S. voters: Establishes a uniform federal requirement to verify identity and citizenship before counting Federal ballots, intended to reduce ineligible voting and increase confidence in federal election integrity.
States and local governments: Adds a direct citizenship checkbox to census questionnaires, improving the availability of citizenship data (rather than relying only on modeled estimates).
Noncitizen residents (including lawful permanent residents, children, and other noncitizens): Would be excluded from apportionment, reducing representation and likely decreasing federal resources and political voice for areas with large noncitizen populations.
Low-income, rural, elderly, students, disabled people, and immigrants: New ID and documentary requirements increase the risk of ballot rejection, delays, or effective disenfranchisement due to travel, cost, or difficulty obtaining records.
Immigrant and minority communities and the jurisdictions that serve them: Adding citizenship questions/checks on census forms may reduce response rates and produce undercounts, degrading data quality and potentially misdirecting federal funding and planning.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires a census citizenship checkbox, bases apportionment on citizens only, and requires government photo ID proving U.S. citizenship (or separate proof plus photo ID) to receive a federal ballot.
Changes how the population count for apportionment is collected and used and adds new federal voter ID and citizenship-document requirements. It directs the Census Bureau to add a citizenship checkbox to census forms, shifts certain population counts to years five years after a decennial census and every 10 years thereafter, and amends apportionment law to count only U.S. citizens when distributing House seats and Electoral College votes. It also creates a federal requirement that voters present government photo identification that proves U.S. citizenship (or separate proof of citizenship plus matching photo ID) to receive a ballot for federal offices, allows provisional ballots for those who fail to present ID, and lists several acceptable citizenship documents (text provided is partially truncated).