Dimensionally Barrett

  I don’t think I need to spend a lot of time on the history of the so-called SAVEAct. It had been drafted last congressional session, died, and has been reintroduced in more appalling drag. What I do want to do is bring this to everyone’s attention that I can that this is the single most dangerous piece of legislation to come before Congress in terms of stripping away the majority of American’s access to voting. It passed the House and is in the pipeline for passing the Senate. Because this is of the moment, I’m sharing tools from yesterday’s call with Declaration for Democracy Coalition that they have provided. Included is a FAQ to lay out taking points, as well as a factsheet from The Center for American Progress. This is for the national SAVE Act. Texas and 18 other states have drafted similar measures with anele toward restricting voter access and crippling democracy. SB16/HB 5337 go before the legislature in Austin tomorrow. I will frame a separate post for that and link to i...

  This is an all-hands issue. Tomorrrow. Texas’ version of the SAVE Act goes before the state senate. This is a copycat bill of the SAVE Act that passed the House of Representatives this month and will come up for a vote by the U.S. Senate. These bills are designed to suppress access to voting under the guise of ensuring that non-citizens cannot vote. Non-citizens already cannot vote; this legislation would impose greater hardships on voters by requiring proof of citizenship in the form of our birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers. At the national level, an estimated 150 million people don’t have passports. Given that married women will have to present their birth certificate because their married name differs from their birthname will add to the burden of casting a ballot. This same measure is designed to suppress trans people from voting since the name at birth is going to be different form their current name. For what you can do: Today, register for Rapid Respons...