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Over 80% of the public wants it. I agree that only citizens should vote, so that is 80%, +1. I further agree that people should have documentation of citizenship, but
that documentation must be easily obtained, and free. If the dox are hard to obtain, and/or costly, requiring dox amounts to a poll tax, which was a popular was of suppressing voting by some groups.
The fact is, most people don't know what is really in the SAVE Act.
But when the poll asked about the actual piece of legislation, formerly known as the SAVE Act, support wasn’t anywhere close to those numbers. In fact, just 28% supported it, while 31% opposed it.
just 16% of Republicans said they knew a lot about the SAVE America Act. Another 33% of Republicans said they generally knew what it’s about, including some specifics. The rest — about half — said they don’t really know any specifics.
The poll shows 42% of Americans regard ineligible voting as a “major problem.” But about the same amount — 44% — say preventing eligible citizens from voting is also a “major problem.”
The survey finds 43% overall say the citizenship requirement would mostly prevent illegal noncitizen voting. But the rest — 57% — say it would either mostly prevent legal citizens from voting (29%) or would prevent both about equally (28%). cnn.com - Save america act republicans pollWhat happened when Kansas tried a version of Trump's SAVE Act? Chaos
At least 31,000 people were barred from registering to vote, according to the judge’s findings, including in a key statewide election in 2014 in which incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback narrowly defeated Democrat Paul Davis.usatoday.com - Kansas version trumps save act chaos lawsuitsThe SAVE Act bans no excuse absentee voting.
Majority of Americans Continue to Back Expanded Early Voting, Voting by Mail, Voter ID
58% favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail, but support remains much lower among Republicans than Democratspewresearch.org - Majority of americans continue to back expanded early voting voting by mail voter idSteve
