The SAVE Act - Another MAGA conspiracy

Much of the MAGA movement is one conspiracy theory after another. Presently, the SAVE Act is a prime example. It is justified by the purported 2020 election loss of Donald Trump due to voting corruption. 

To be clear, from 1982 to 2025, nearly four billion ballots were cast in primary and general elections. The Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025 and principal supporters of Donald Trump, tracks voter fraud. It has found 100 cases of (proven) non-citizen voting between 1982 and 2025. 

That's one non-citizen vote for every 30-40 million citizen votes cast (0.000000025-0.000000033%). While 100 non-citizens voting is clearly wrong and illegal, it's important to gather some perspective. The President insists this is a glaring sign of political corruption and, further, why he lost the election in 2020. 

Many thorough investigations in many states, including Montana, have investigated, ad nauseum, for voter fraud. No matter how often and how loud the President and his followers scream voter fraud, actual statistics reveal there is none. 

This issue is an excuse for the federal government to meddle in our most sacred democratic function. Which is unconstitutional. 

Trump isn’t waiting for November to rig the midterm elections. He’s doing it right now. President Trump is demanding the Senate cancel any August recess in order to pass the SAVE America Act, which could potentially strip 20 million Americans of their ability to vote. 

Further, the SAVE Act includes NO RESTRICTIONS on what the federal government can do with the sensitive data once DHS receives it and no safeguards against using the data to force voter purges or unduly question election results. 

In Trump’s words: It would “guarantee the midterms” because this act would require voters to provide a birth certificate or passport to vote. How many people could access a birth certificate from a county seat if they lived hundreds of miles away, or if they aren’t certain where they were born or have the money to pay for a passport? 

What about married women who have changed their last names to their husbands'? Or live hundreds of miles from the county seat without transportation in a large state, such as Montana? 

Trump is requesting an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to gut mail-in voting in 23 states vital to keep control of Congress. The courts keep blocking it, but the Trump Administration keeps trying. This is not paranoia. 

It is a President telling you who he wants to vote and what he is concerned about if the majority in Congress swings to Democrats, and further, what he is willing to do to prevent this from happening.

David R. James, Eureka, Montana