Trump Looks Increasingly Desperate to Restrict Voting Rights – Mother Joneshttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-attack-on-voting-rights-save-act/

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Trump Looks Increasingly Desperate to Restrict Voting Rights – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-attack-on-voting-rights-save-act/

Donald Trump threatened to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms. 

The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, requires individuals to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot.

The bill would potentially block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. The bill may impact millions of US citizens in other ways: tens of millions of women who took their partner’s last name, for example, typically do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name could. They would, at best, find it more difficult to register and, more likely, be denied their right to vote.

Moreover, the bill would require states to send their voter rolls, including personal information, to the Department of Homeland Security so that the agency can cross-check it with its own citizenship verification system.