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Donald Trump and his allies are turning a lie into a weapon—and demanding that the Senate help them aim it at millions of eligible voters. The so-called SAVE America Act is not election security. It is a Trojan horse designed to bury the freedom to vote beneath paperwork, confusion, intimidation, and delay. It Solves a Problem That Does Not Exist Citizenship is already required to vote in federal elections, and noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare. Yet the SAVE America Act would force people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering and a narrowly approved photo ID when voting. The Bipartisan Policy Center found that roughly 12% of registered voters lack the required documentation. Researchers estimate that 21.3 million voting-age citizens cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship. The burden would fall hardest on married women whose names do not match their birth certificates, tribal citizens whose IDs lack the demanded information, military families born overseas, rural voters far from election offices, transgender Americans, seniors, people with disabilities, natural-disaster survivors, and working people who cannot take time off or afford replacement records. We already know where this road leads. Kansas imposed a documentary-proof requirement that prevented roughly 31,000 eligible citizens from registering—far more citizens than noncitizens. That is not election integrity. It is voter prevention & suppression. VOTE NO ON ANY FORM OF THE SAVE ACT…FULL STOP!