Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, has erupted at fellow members of Congress for refusing to adopt the election integrity-securing SAVE America Act.
His ire follows a report that found 30,000 noncitizens on America’s voter rolls, illegally.
He charges that the integrity plan likely won’t pass this Congress, and a commentary at RedState points out that if Democrats gain the majority in either the House or Senate in November, “We can kiss election security goodbye.”
The report said, “That’s it. That’s where we are. It’s up to we, the voters, now. We have to win this. We have to win every winnable race. We have to turn out. The Silent Majority has to step up. We have to show up, in voting booths from Bangor to San Diego, from Miami to Fairbanks, from Houston to Honolulu, and get this done. It has come to that. It’s up to us. No excuses. If you have to bite your tongue over a certain candidate, bite it, and vote. The republic is in our hands now.”
It was a report at Fox that described the Utah senator’s anger at “both Democrats and Republicans” who have refused to move forward on the SAVE America Plan.
Fox reported, “Reuters reported on Wednesday that more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens have been added to U.S. voter rolls since 2000. The outlet attributed the erroneous registrations to ‘software glitches and clerical errors’ and said that its review suggested ‘inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally.’”
Mike Lee slams lawmakers for refusing to pass the SAVE America Act after a report found 30,000 noncitizens were “mistakenly” registered to vote in states across the country since 2000.
The Utah senator says the current safeguards rely too heavily on the “honor system,” adding,… pic.twitter.com/CF5xprHz8c
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HONOR SYSTEM: Sen. Mike Lee rips both Democrats and Republicans after a Reuters report found more than 30,000 noncitizens were registered to vote across the U.S. since 2000 — and no one can say how many actually cast ballots.
Lee, who introduced the SAVE America Act requiring… pic.twitter.com/655ZsaVz8L
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🚨🇺🇸 Sen. Mike Lee just unloaded on Congress over 30,000 noncitizens found on voter rolls…
He slammed lawmakers for refusing to pass the SAVE Act, arguing current safeguards rely too heavily on the “honor system.”
Lee’s comparison was blunt: it should NOT be easier to commit…
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Lee said, “That thing that they claim never happens, voter fraud or noncitizen voting, just keeps happening over and over and over again.”
Democrats have adamantly opposed any election security plan, going so far as to claim, wildly, that an identification requirement would prevent women who have married and changed their last name from participating in elections.
Reuters found troubling results in “California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia. The outlet said it was unable to determine how many noncitizens actually cast ballots…”
The revelations follow on New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s confirmation that that state registered to vote 6,600 self-identified non-citizens.
Lee said the “honor system” just isn’t working.
He said, “It should not be any easier for someone to get away with voter fraud at a polling location on voting day than it is to cheat Olive Garden through its never-ending pasta pass. … And yet, that’s exactly where we are today.”
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The House has passed the SAVE plan, and President Trump supports it, but senators have refused to move toward its security agenda, even though Lee has explained it would address both ineligible voter registration and fraudulent voting by requiring registrants to verify citizenship and eligibility at the time of registration and requiring voter ID and photo identification at the polls.
If such a number of noncitizens actually voted, that result easily could sway local and state elections, possibly even a national result.
