https://t.co/ZoieLi8BYg
This is a comprehensive breakdown of the SAVE act, and it's potential repercussions. Here's a list of the sources used:
Brennan Center for Justice — Cited extensively for the 2017 survey of election administrators (covering 23.5 million votes), the 2023 national survey on document access (21.3 million citizens lacking DPOC), and the foundational 2006 study on photo ID gaps by race.
Cato Institute — Cited for the conclusion that "noncitizens don't illegally vote in detectable numbers."
Heritage Foundation — Cited for the Election Fraud Database (approximately 68 noncitizen voting cases over 40+ years) and commentary from Hans von Spakovsky on detection and prosecution rates.
Bipartisan Policy Center — Cited for background on NVRA provisions, existing federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting, Kansas DPOC data, and the bill's core principle that only citizens should vote.
Migration Policy Institute — Cited for context on existing federal penalties for noncitizen voting and noncitizen voting rate findings.
American Immigration Council — Cited for noncitizen voting rate data (Heritage's 68 cases against one billion+ ballots cast).
Center for American Progress — Cited for in-person DPOC presentation requirements, Native American documentation challenges (tribal ID birthplace issue), and the effective elimination of online/mail registration.
Institute for Responsive Government — Cited for bill requirements, young voter documentation gaps (24.3% of 18–29-year-olds lacking DPOC), SSA database limitations (pre-1978 records), and unfunded state compliance costs.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — Cited for elderly Americans' vulnerability due to pre-modern vital records systems.
Center for an Informed Public — Cited for the rebuttal of the 2014 Richman, Chattha, and Earnest study on noncitizen voting using CCES survey data.
News & Media Outlets:
KSHB 41 (Kansas City NBC affiliate) — Cited for Kansas data showing 31,000+ citizens blocked versus 39 noncitizen registrations.
U.S. News & World Report — Cited alongside public support polling data for voter ID concepts.
Georgia Public Broadcasting — Cited for the finding that rigorous investigations across the political spectrum show noncitizen voting to be vanishingly rare.
Alabama Political Reporter — Cited in connection with the Cato Institute's noncitizen voting conclusions.
NPR — Cited for coverage of the Texas 2019 noncitizen voter identification effort and its collapse.
The Washington Post — Cited for reporting on the Texas Secretary of State's "WEAK" match classification and the fallout from the 95,000 flagged registrations.
PolitiFact — Cited for rating the Texas 95,000 noncitizen claim as "False."
CBS News — Cited for data on young voters blocked under Kansas's DPOC law.
Legal & Civil Rights Organizations:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — Cited for the Fish v. Kobach ruling outcomes, VRA Section 2 challenges, and the 10th Circuit affirmance.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund — Cited for the statistic that only 6% of voters currently register in person at election offices.
League of Women Voters — Referenced for testimony that voter registration drives became "essentially impossible" under Kansas's DPOC law (also listed among the 145+ civil rights organizations opposing the bill).
NAACP — Listed among the 145+ civil rights organizations that signed a letter calling the bill "wholly based on falsehoods."
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights — Listed among the coalition of 145+ organizations opposing the bill.
Government & Official Sources:
https://t.co/tIMJSEzoBY — Cited for the text and provisions of the SAVE America Act (S. 3752 / H.R. 7296).
Committee on House Administration — Cited for SSA database limitations regarding pre-1978 citizenship records.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — Referenced for the acknowledgment that the SAVE system "is not a source database of U.S. citizens" and "may not be able to confirm U.S. citizenship" for many individuals.
Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity — Referenced for being disbanded in January 2018 without finding evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Polling Organizations:
Gallup — Cited for October 2024 polling showing 84% support for photo ID to vote and 83% support for proof of citizenship at registration (with partisan breakdowns).
Pew Research Center — Cited for August 2025 survey confirming 83% support for government-issued photo ID (Republicans 95%, Democrats 71%).
Academic Studies & Legal Cases
Richman, Chattha, and Earnest (2014) — Academic study using CCES survey data cited as the basis for claims of widespread noncitizen voting; subsequently refuted.
Ansolabehere, Luks, and Schaffner — Demonstrated that a 0.1% survey misclassification rate fully explains the Richman et al. results; concluded the actual noncitizen voting rate is "likely zero."
Fish v. Kobach (2018) — Federal court ruling striking down Kansas's DPOC law; Judge Julie Robinson's 118-page opinion finding the law violated the NVRA and the Equal Protection Clause.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (2013) — Supreme Court ruling (7-2, Justice Scalia writing) that the NVRA preempts state proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal voter registration.
Harman v. Forssenius (1965) — Supreme Court precedent holding that no "equivalent or milder substitute" may be imposed for a poll tax under the 24th Amendment.
Additional Sources:
Kansas Reflector — cited for Kansas noncitizen registration rate data
Wikipedia — Cited for background on the disbanding of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and the Fish v. Kobach case history.
State-Level Data Sources Referenced (by jurisdiction)
The report draws on audit and election data from the following states:
Utah (2025–26): 1 registration, 0 votes among 2.1 million registered voters
Georgia (2024): 20 registered, 9 voted among 8.2 million registered voters
Michigan (2024): 16 noncitizen votes among 5.7 million ballots
Kansas (1999–2013): 39 registered, 11 voted among 1.8 million registered voters
Louisiana (1980s–2025): 390 registered, 79 voted among ~74 million ballots cast
Iowa (2024): 35 voted among ~1.7 million ballots
Texas (2019): Secretary of State David Whitley's 95,000 flagged registrations
Denton County, TX: 14% of flagged voters confirmed as citizens
Travis County, TX: 25% of flagged voters had already provided citizenship proof
Boone County, MO: Over half of flagged "noncitizens" were citizens
Orange County, CA: Estimated $6+ million annually and 59 additional staff for compliance
New Hampshire (2024 law, March 2025 elections): Nearly 100 voters turned away
@cb_doge Well considering he's been full of shit with all of his predictions, unfortunately I don't see us getting lucky enough that he'll be going to mars anytime soon.
Also pretty comical that he thinks the entire planet of Mars will ever be 'part of america.' Fucking moron.
@GuntherEagleman@elonmusk What about the independents who understand what a danger Trump/MAGA is to our democracy? I guess they're in the same cult?
The reality is that you dipshit MAGAts are the one in the cult. The rest of us just want this alternate reality you've created to finally fucking end.
@elonmusk As usual, glossing over the fact that you bought a whole ass social media company to influence OUR elections with obvious propaganda and lies.
But, again, tell us more about your victimhood fetish instead of taking a accountability for what an objective piece of shit you are.
@elonmusk@spencerpratt It's called AI. Only clowns and sycophants will ever use the term 'super intelligence.'
One person doesn't get to unilaterally rename an entire technology on a whim. And why in the actual fuck anyone would support the demented toddler who thinks he can, is beyond me. 🤡
@elonmusk You forgot the part where you bought twitter to influence the '24 election by amplifying liars, bigots, propagandists, etc- all to benefit YOU.
Stop crying about how badly you want to be a victim, you over privileged man child, and take some fucking accountability *for once* 🤡
@Bus_Driver_@RepJoeNeguse@Ilhan The goal was to find out who was in communication with Trump on J6, obviously. Which to no one's surprise was many of the big mouth MAGA dipshits.
Whatever they were discussing, while the mob tried to overturn our election, seems pertinent to the case- for any reasonable person.
@GIG19930@RepJoeNeguse@Ilhan Solid comeback. I know you MAGAts are allergic to facts, because they always disagree with you, but I'm not in the business of trusting randos on the internet.
Back up your claims with actual facts, or stfu.
@MichaelHar21269@RepJoeNeguse@Ilhan Literally all of that was a lie, but feel free to actually provide some proof for that nonsense from reputable sources.
@RealJamesWoods More fear mongering about the DSA, because that's literally all you clowns have to run on.
Trump/MAGA has ruined our country, plain to see for anyone actually paying attention.
@StephenM Yep, it was the Dems who did that.
Do everyone a favor and go crawl back under your rock, Igor. No one with an ounce of intelligence listens to your fake pearl clutching.
@WhiteHouse If enough people are paying attention and vote against the MAGAts, we have a chance yes. Allowing this comically transparent corruption to continue, though, means America loses.
@JoshuaHosler The fact that so many young minds have fallen prey to the MAGA cult is indeed a sign that our schools are catastrophically failing. Zero critical thinking skills being imparted, nor a healthy dose of skepticism to MAGAs moronic claims.
@ScottPresler Please waste your (and the taxpayers') time doing so.
And when you find the couple dozen illegal votes across the millions of total votes, also be sure to completely blow it out of proportion as you MAGAts love to do.
@realBrandonGill You'd have to be pretty fucking dumb to be 'sick and tired' of something that's not actually happening.
Which you, and your MAGAt supporters, obviously are.