As if there weren’t already enough strikes against Arizona’s sketchy election history, this one is MAMMOTH.

Last week, the House GOP passed the SAVE Act. Details of the bill will be added below.

The Left’s Hype

Democrats (and their partisan cheerleaders in the press) have reflexively denounced it as anti-democratic, anti-woman, or as irrelevant grandstanding passing laws that solve problems that do not exist. (Remember that last point, we’re coming back to it.

A websearch of the act brings up some predictably slanted news stories.

Elected dems are chiming in with the same talking points.

Some of those talking points were addressed directly by the WHPressSec

Dem Narrative Collides With Reality

The legislation, we’re told, will accomplish nothing because there is no evidence of illegals being registered to vote.

Oh really? Is that so?

It was only 2 weeks ago that we shared a story where Elon told the world about DOGE taking a sampling of illegals with Social Security numbers, and discovered that many of them were not only registered voters, but that some had even cast votes. “OPEN BORDER: Biden’s Long Game Was Even MORE Anti-American Than We First Thought”

The ‘we don’t need this legislation’ is already looking flimsy after that. But that’s the only the beginning.

Courts are a good place to test such claims, right? Rules of evidence, and all that. What happened with this question was raised in Arizona — a state which has frequently sided with the establishment against complaints of irregularities raised by, say, Kari Lake?

All 15 Arizona counties have now begun the process of verifying and removing noncitizens from their voter rolls, including nearly 50,000 registrants who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.

“This settlement is a great result for all Arizonans,” America First Legal (AFL) senior counsel James Rogers told Fox News Digital after his organization’s successful lawsuit spearheaded the process in Arizona.

AFL filed the lawsuit against the 15 Arizona counties last year on behalf of EZAZ.org, and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen, arguing that the counties had not been following a state law that requires proof of citizenship to vote in local and state elections and for the state to do monthly checks of the rolls for noncitizens.

As a result of the lawsuit, the 15 counties have now begun working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify the citizenship status of all registered voters in the state who failed to provide proof of citizenship. —FoxNews

‘Verify the citizenship status of all registered voters who failed to provide proof of citizenship’ is not the objectionable part of this story. The red flag comes from ‘has begun to’.

It’s all well and good for Democrats to hand-wave the issue away and say it’s not a problem, because it isn’t happening.

They can say it is a crime that has not been charged. The CANNOT say it is a non-issue because there has been, before now, NO attempt to confirm that only lawful citizens have been determining the outcome of American elections.

If one party consistently opposes such accountability, the voting public deserves to know WHY.

Do they somehow think it’s in the citizens’ best interest to have foreigners shaping the results of elections? Or is this just an opportunistic power grab by a party that has contempt for the genuine will of the electorate?

The Objective Facts

Here is the summary of the bill as written on the Congressional website. Dems call it ‘objectionable’. But their explanation for why always defaults to emotional hand-wringing.

This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.

Specifically, the bill prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. The bill specifies what documents are considered acceptable proof of U.S. citizenship, such as identification that complies with the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates U.S. citizenship.

Further, the bill (1) prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in a federal election unless, at the time the individual applies to register to vote, the individual provides documentary proof of U.S. citizenship; and (2) requires states to establish an alternative process under which an applicant may submit other evidence to demonstrate U.S. citizenship.

Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall include establishing a program to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens using information supplied by certain sources.

Additionally, states must remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.

The bill allows for a private right of action against an election official who registers an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

The bill establishes criminal penalties for certain offenses, including registering an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.