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California’s Skid Row Voter Case Proves Trump Right About the SAVE Act

California makes the strongest case for passing the SAVE America Act. The state has built one of the most permissive voting systems in the country, with lax safeguards and rules that defy common sense. It has multiplied the pathways for ballots to enter circulation and remain in the counting process while reducing the most important eligibility question to little more than an honor system: Is the voter an American citizen?

A recent federal case reveals how easily the state’s rules can be exploited before ballots are cast. Federal prosecutors last month charged Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, a longtime petition circulator, with paying individuals, including homeless people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, to register to vote. She allegedly paid individuals to complete voter registration forms and on several occasions provided homeless individuals with her own former address.

Given that California automatically mails a vote-by-mail ballot to every active registered voter, ballots in some of those individuals’ names potentially could have been sent to an address where they did not live or collect mail.........

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