EPISODE 3: Who Actually Controls Your Voter Registration? — The SAVE Act, Part 3 of 3
Show Notes 📝 and embedded video 📺 for Episode 3 of the Clear Reception podcast, the last episode of our SAVE Act series.
Kansas already tried requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. More than 30,000 citizens paid the price.
In the last part of our SAVE Act series, we ask the big question: if noncitizen voting isn’t a real problem, why push so hard? We look at what happened in Kansas and Arizona and how a flawed federal tool could flag real citizens for removal. We also cover the executive order that tried to do what Congress wouldn’t, and the Justice Department’s losing streak suing states for their voter rolls. And a handy acronym for seeing the whole picture: POSIWID.
Clarification: The executive order called for states to give the Postal Service a list of eligible voters, but didn't require it. The Postal Service rule that followed asks for each state's list of mail voters, and only ballots to voters on that list would be delivered. Courts have blocked the rule for the 2026 midterms.
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Show Notes
- Why voting rights groups warn the SAVE Act may make it harder for married women to vote - PBS NewsHour
- Fact-checking the "69 million women" claim - PolitiFact
- The Damage from Conspiracy Theories About Noncitizen Voting - Brennan Center
- Trump calls on Republicans to "nationalize" future elections - CNN
- U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 4
- North Carolina's audit: 97.6% of flagged "noncitizens" were citizens - NC State Board of Elections (PDF)
- DHS, USCIS and DOGE overhaul the SAVE System - DHS
- Executive Order 14399: Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections - Federal Register
- Judge blocks Trump effort to restrict mail ballots - NBC News
- Six Things to Know About the SAVE America Act - Bipartisan Policy Center
- Can the Federal Government Force States to Hand Over Citizens' Voter Information? - UW State Democracy Research Initiative
- POSIWID: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does - Daring Fireball
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Fritz Martin