Earlier this week our friend Cleta Mitchell, Senior Legal Fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute, and one the Nation’s foremost election law attorneys testified in favor of the SAVE Act before the House Judiciary Committee. Ms. Mitchell’s testimony was so clear and concise in its explanation of why the SAVE Act is necessary to prevent non-citizen voting that we present it here in its entirety.
Testified Ms. Mitchell:
There are several key reasons why the SAVE Act is necessary. Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility is and does exactly what the title says: it safeguards American voter eligibility, and it is desperately needed to secure the 2024 elections.
The SAVE Act will reverse a decision of the US Supreme Court from 2013 in which the Court ruled that only Congress can direct and decide the content of the federal voter registration form, to require proof of US Citizenship in order to register and vote in US elections. Quite simply, the SAVE Act would do what the Supreme Court determined in 2013 that only Congress can do: safeguard eligibility for voting in federal elections by requiring documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote.
With the borders opened on January 21, 2021 by the Biden-Harris Administration, with illegals pouring across the borders by the millions and being taken who knows where in our country, the SAVE Act has become absolutely vital to protecting our elections from massive illegal voting by noncitizens.
Not only will the SAVE Act require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, but it also contains several other components that are vital for the 2024 elections:
* It requires that states compare their existing voter lists to citizenship data – to identify and remove noncitizens who are already registered
* It establishes a new criminal penalty for those who knowingly register noncitizens to vote
* It requires federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security to make available to the states at no cost, citizenship data that states and local election offices need in order to confirm citizenship of persons registered or seeking to register.
One important aspect of the SAVE Act would be to ensure that the 22 states who have same day registration, meaning that an individual can register and immediately be allowed to vote, will not be eligible to vote until having provided proof of citizenship.
This requirement will interrupt one of the biggest threats to the integrity of the 2024 election: the organized roundup by leftwing advocacy groups of scores of illegals to register and vote them on the same day, before anyone can determine if the individuals were eligible to vote in the election.
Democrats oppose the SAVE Act, ostensibly because it is ‘already illegal for noncitizens to vote in a federal election.’ Yes. It is. And it is illegal for millions of people to swarm across our borders without documentation, but nonetheless, this Administration under Border Czar Kamala Harris has adopted just such a policy of opening the door and letting absolutely anyone and everyone into the country. Illegally. Already against federal law.
If the Democrats sincerely want to keep noncitizens from voting, then let me ask you:
* Where are the enforcement actions from the Dept of Justice?
* Where are the memos to US Attorneys across the nation warning about potential widescale violations of the prohibitions on noncitizen voting? Where is the FBI hotline to report suspicious registrations of illegals?
* When is the Merrick Garland press conference announcing that it is illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in the election and violators will be apprehended, prosecuted and deported?
Did I miss that public education campaign?
No. I didn’t miss it. It doesn’t exist.
The Democrats plan for 2024 is to CHANGE the electorate. If they can’t persuade the American people to want their Marxist policies for America, just import voters who don’t speak the language, don’t have a shared commitment to our country and our national principles, get them into the very porous voter registration system, and collect their votes.
Just Facts.com researcher James Agresti published a report that a conservative estimate is that 10-17% of noncitizens are registered to vote, and based on previous elections at least 1-2.7 million noncitizens will vote in the 2024 presidential election.
Democrat controlled cities such as San Francisco, New York and Washington DC –have granted voting rights to noncitizens.
Leftist groups fought having the citizenship question on the 2020 Census, a question that had been on the census for more than a century.
EVERY DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS voted against putting the citizenship question back on the census.
Every Democrat also voted NO to apportioning US House seats based on US citizens instead of population.
Why? California would have lost 4 US House seats following the 2010 census and 3 more in 2020 if ONLY US citizens had been counted for apportionment of the US House among the states.
That isn’t only US House seats, it is 7 more electoral votes … for the Democrats.
It is why the Democrats voted NO on reversing the decision of the District of Columbia to allow noncitizens to vote in DC.
For Democrats, noncitizens are their future political base.
Please do the right thing. Pass the SAVE Act. We need the SAVE Act immediately before the 2024 are marred by illegals and noncitizens votes, thus permanently changing the future of our country.
Thank you.
The Capitol Switchboard is (202-224-3121), we urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Representative and Senators. Tell them you demand the SAVE Act be included in any continuing resolution or end-of-year spending bill.
Congress
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act
Speaker Mike Johnson
citizenship to vote
voting laws
Rep. Chip Roy
H.R 8281
voter lists
federal spending
Republican majority
national debt
continuing resolution
omnibus appropriations bill
regular order
PAYGO rules
Senator Rand Paul
Waive reading of the bill