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Congress Failed, but Voters in 11 States Get Their Say on Core Provision of the SAVE Act

Senate Republicans were unable to pass the SAVE America Act this year, but voters in several states have the chance to approve ballot measures implementing its provisions.

The SAVE America Act would require photo ID to vote and proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Measures in Arizona and California combine a voter ID requirement with a prohibition on noncitizen voting or strengthened safeguards against it.

Ballot measures in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia would ban noncitizen voting. Meanwhile, the battleground states of Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio will vote only on voter ID measures.

State bans on noncitizen voting could carry greater importance after a federal judge ruled earlier this month that a 1996 federal ban on noncitizen voting was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Joe Biden, asserted in his opinion that only states can set voter qualifications.

“A federal judge wrote the federal prohibition on noncitizen voting is unconstitutional. So we need to do this,” Kansas state Rep. Pat Proctor, chairman of the state’s House Elections Committee, told the Daily Signal.

Since 2012, voter ID ballot measures have succeeded in 10 states and failed in three, according to Ballotpedia. Since 2018, voters in 15 states have approved citizen-only voting measures, and none have failed, according to Ballotpedia.

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