Thune: The SAVE America Act Protects Our Elections and Our Youth

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Thune: The SAVE America Act Protects Our Elections and Our Youth

“[Democrats] will be forced to defend their outrageous positions on these issues – and explain to the American people why common sense and the Democratic Party have parted ways.”

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:

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    3. no it doesn’t disenfranchise women.
      And if a married woman hopes to get survivor benefits through the VA or the Social Security Administration, she better figure out what her husband did with their marriage certificate, because she’s going to need it.
      It’s probably in that same folder with his military discharge paper, in the same file cabinet with the tax returns, insurance policies, wills and DPOAs. He probably left it there after taking it to the VA to sign up for a benefit, like side-by-side plots in the veterans’ cemetery, because they won’t inter the spouse of a veteran in there without that marriage certificate. You may cohabit without marriage in this life but not 6′ under in the next..
      If neither one of them can locate it, they should request a copy from the courthouse in the county where they got married.
      And if they were too intoxicated to know where they were when they got married, and it’s all a dim memory of an alcohol-fueled haze, they can go to their local courthouse and get married all over again, and get a new marriage certificate. Then hope they both live another ten years, so they can get their 40 quarters in and qualify for Social Security benefits.

      1. We don’t know what this useless vote-suppression nightmare will specifically do until the Senate passes it, it goes to conference if needed, and the President signs it. But it could do a lot of negative and needless things to add layers of resistance between a voter and a ballot. The notion that this will be invisible to voters is nonsense.

        1. The GOP needs to relax. As soon as Russia is done helping Iran kill American soldiers, Russia will get back to work helping Trump and GOP congress members overcome their electoral obstacles this year. Can’t have a vibrant USA returning to support of NATO and western alliance partners again, better to have Trump and GOP keep it broken to bits.

      2. 1. Why did you go off on a lengthy soliloquy about VA or SS benefits in a discussion about the fundamental right to vote?
        2. And the bill better be passed, OR ELSE, right Anne? Better threaten violence!

        1. you seemed to have missed all the nonsense about how married women can’t locate their marriage certificates to show why their legal names don’t match the ones on their birth certificates, so they can’t get voter IDs
          or drivers licenses
          or passports
          or VA and SSA benefits.
          That’s why these misogynistic democrats are telling everybody that this will disenfranchise women, because women don’t know where they left their marriage certificates.
          And they don’t have the brains to get new ones. Funny, they knew where those certificates were right after they got married and got new drivers licenses and social security cards etc.
          But the whole notion that this will disenfranchise married women because their names changed when they got married is nuts.
          Generations of American women have figured out what men seem to believe is a terrible problem.

      3. My wife’s marriage certificate doesn’t have her maiden name on it, as this was her second marriage.
        So she’ll need a birth certificate and either 2 marriage certificates or a divorce certificate and a marriage certificate. Does a divorce decree have the maiden name?

        1. I had no trouble getting a passport after my second marriage.

          Have you heard of any married women having their passport applications denied??

          Perhaps women are less confused about this than the men are.
          It starts with the first time we get married. We take our marriage certificates with us to get new drivers’ permits, social security cards, all that.
          If the marriage lasts more than ten years, she will be able to claim social security benefits under her ex-husband’s account if they are greater than her own. She needs to hang onto that first divorce decree to prove the marriage lasted longer than 10 years..So she should know where it is..
          Women should be aware that all that documentation should be retained in case they need it later. Like when registering to vote.

          1. You still are dodging the issue of the cost associated with obtaining these documents. Which Anthony pointed out below, is a poll tax.

            1. I don’t recall having to pay for any of them.

              I think I see the problem here. Lots of distress from men who do not know how easily women change their names, their husbands, or their minds, the same men who struggle to change their underwear.

              We know who you are

              1. Certified copies of divorce documents are $15. Why lie about something so easily researched?

              2. I see the problem here, a gross oversimplification and holier-than-thou disposition while dodging reality. Liar.

            2. the original copies are free. Duplicates will have a fee attached but the cost is considerably less than not having that documentation. For example, it costs $38 to get a drivers’ permit, but If you get caught driving without one, the cost is up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $500.
              Marriage certificates are cheap compared to the financial loss of being unable to get Social Security benefits because you can’t prove you were married to a qualified worker for 40 quarters.
              These birth, marriage and divorce documents are things that women should be keeping in secure locations. If she has lost them, it is probably her own fault, and If she cannot remember where she left them, she should
              spend the money to get copies, even if she doesn’t need them to register to vote.

              1. Ya know, you’re an asshole. It’s completely inconceivable in your eyes that anyone would have life circumstances that would preclude them from being able to safely store their documents, let alone a fire or other natural disaster. You’d blame them for not being prepared enough or some shit like that.

  2. Republicans know they can’t win so they are going to do what they can to keep people from voting. What a bunch of losers. It isnt going to change the economic and foreign failures on full display.

  3. It’s a poll tax they say, it’s a way to marginalize the minority voters they say…lol. When the mayor of NYC says you need 2 forms of ID to shovel snow in NYC…it can’t be to bad. Besides that you need an ID for government assistance. Pass the act.

    1. The 2 forms of ID are because they are being paid by the city….
      you know – like it’s a JOB.

    2. Once again: voting is a fundamental right protected by the United States Constitution in the strictest manner possible. Another is employment, through which employers set there own standards. Any other apples/oranges comparisons you’d like to make while snickering ironically about how dumb other people are?

      1. Voting is only a legal right for legal citizens.

        Seriously, if you can’t figure out how to prove you’re actually a legal citizen, you shouldn’t be voting.

        1. Peoplr already have to be citizens to vote and you want to pass more laws anyway. You are fixing a nonexistent problem. Next excuse.

  4. You never see the GOP do anything to cultivate more voters. They continually introduce legislation in the state and nationwide to stifle voters. They repeatedly throw blocks in front of gathering signatures on petitions, etc. They keep waving the bloody flag of voter fraud with NO proof.

  5. A strange part of the Republicans pushing this bill so hard is that they will disenfranchise a lot of their own voters- the rural and poor citizens without easy access to a passport.

  7. Have they ever proven that a single county had its election compromised in the 2020 election? Show me just one county that was PROVEN in court to have been manipulated. You can’t.

    But we do know that Trump tried corrupting the Georgia election in 2020 with that scandalous call to their Secretary of State. What about that, Senator? If you really wanted to fight corruption… you’d start there.

    Are you nothing more than Trump’s toady?

  8. I am against this law for one reason and one reason ONLY.
    AND it’s something that the government could EASILY fix as part of the law.
    Drivers Licenses cost money.
    Getting a copy of a birth certificate costs money.
    Passports cost Money.
    Getting a copy of marriage licenses costs money.
    I remember back when I went in to get my ‘Real ID’ driver’s license years ago there was a little old lady who was trying to get her license.
    She had been married three times, in three different states, and she was born in Wyoming.
    She changed her name all three times. She was told she’d need all three marriage licenses.
    So she would have needed to go through the effort to get replacement documents including one of the states was telling her she needed to go there in person to make the request.
    This is absolutely a burden on women more than men, and older women more than younger women.
    The solution IS something that could be fixed by this bill. We do what the world’s largest representative democracy does. India requires proof of citizenship to vote, and they automatically issue photo-id voter certificates to every citizen.
    For Free.
    We have a mechanism to re-issue these certificates on a periodic basis.
    For Free.
    We make it easy to get – so people in small rural communities don’t have to drive long distances to get their ID’s.
    For Free.
    Do that and suddenly the (legitimate) reasons for people to object go away.

    3. Anthony, didn’t you wonder what that thrice-married old lady had done with her original documents?

        1. She was in her 70’s and had moved mulitple times and had lived in multiple states?
          I mean – after 30-40-50 years documents can get lost.
          Add to that the fact that no one had EVER asked her for them, why would she have bothered with it?

  9. If this blatant voter suppression act is passed into law, the backlash will be enormous.

    You won’t see any of our delegation at any open town halls. Minority rule!

  10. I’m guessing that if you had any confidence that you could win an election with your message, you wouldn’t have to change the rules.

  11. If the dems didn’t import millions of illegals with the intent to grant them voting rights, this bill would not have been necessary.

    1. Proof please that illegals voted en masse or singularly to sway an election? You are another gaslighting MAGA pawn

      1. Proof please, that they didn’t?

        Given the overwhelming support for Voter ID by both Republicans and Democrats, it’s obvious that a majority of Americans want assurances of voting integrity, not mere partisan assertions.

        1. When attempting to regulate a natural right, it must pass the strict scrutiny test. Meaning that whatever restrictions in place must not only be the least egregious, there must also be certifiable proof that they are needed. Therefore, the onus is on every dipshit that buys into the voter fraud conspiracies to put up or shut up. So prove it. Prove that there’s massive voting fraud that needs such draconian and heavy handed tactics.

        2. We’re asking people to prove a negative now? Not too bright, bub. Not too bright.

      2. Most Democrats and Republicans want this??? Really?? Really?? Utterly untrue, especially for Democrats. Watch the votes and we’ll see what Democrats prefer. Democratic congress members still act for their constituents, unlike Republicans, who are so fixed on appeasing Trump and the billionaires, buried in so deep they need a snorkel. If we survive the wretched gutting the GOP have given this country, something’s gotta change.

      3. Most Democrats and Republicans want this??? Really?? Really?? Utterly untrue, especially for Democrats. Watch the votes and we’ll see what Democrats prefer. Democratic congress members still act for their constituents, unlike Republicans, who are so fixed on appeasing Trump and the billionaires, buried in so deep they need a snorkel. If we survive the wretched gutting the GOP have given this country, something’s gotta change.

    1. There is a chance the country’s fundamental structure was already FUBAR thanks to McConnell when he handed it to Thune. Only Thune knows what drives this purposeful blindness and dereliction.

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