Senate Majority Leader John Thune urges Democrats to support the SAVE America Act, a bill requiring photo ID for voting, predicting political benefit for Republicans in the midterm elections. The article also touches on the debate surrounding voter ID laws and related controversies.
by RAY LEWIS | The National News DeskSenate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that Democrats should join Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that Republicans will benefit in the midterm elections from Democratic opposition to the SAVE America Act, a bill requiring photo ID to vote.
“We want to make sure that if you’re in this country, you have to be a citizen of this country, actually, to exercise and cast your vote. So I think that’s a fairly simple position and one that Democrats ought to eventually get on board with,” Thune said. “But if they don’t, we will, I mean, it’s obviously an issue that we will be able to use, I think, in the fall elections."and variations of it from advancing. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has argued that the bill would disenfranchise millions of voters. “Let me be very clear, the SAVE Act is not a voter ID bill,” he said during a speech on Tuesday. “It is in every sense a voter suppression bill.” The Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy think tank, found in a 2023 study that nine percent of Americans – more than 20 million people – didn't have citizenship proof on hand.Austin officials call for renaming Cesar Chavez Street, march canceled amid allegations Community organizations have canceled Austin's annual César Chávez March and four Austin city officials have called for renaming Cesar Chavez Streetfollowing tOne person was airlifted to the hospital after a commercial vehicle crash on US 183 north of Mustang Ridge Wednesday. All lanes of the highway are closed in botTexas Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that the state will no longer observe César Chávez Day and has directed all state agencies to comply, while alsoA man from Liberty Hill will spend the next 32 years behind bars for attempting to murder his ex-wife and her boyfriend over a child custody dispute in 2024.OnCivil rights icon and labor leader Dolores Huerta has publicly alleged that she experienced sexual abuse at the hands of fellow farmworker movement leader Cesar
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