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PARKER: SAVE America Act amounts to a Responsible Citizenship Act

Should this bill be passed and signed into law? Absolutely

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At this writing, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act, after which it will move to the Senate.

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The challenge will be in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats are needed to join 53 Republicans to reach the 60 needed to pass the filibuster threshold.

PARKER: SAVE America Act amounts to a Responsible Citizenship Act Back to video

Should this bill be passed and signed into law? Absolutely.

The core premise of this bill is beyond any question or dispute — that anyone voting in a federal election must be a U.S. citizen and provide documentation to prove it.

Many favoured showing ID to vote

In a 2025 Pew Research survey, 83% said they favoured requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote. The Republican-Democrat breakdown was 95%/71% in favour.

Options for documentation proving citizenship required when registering to vote include a REAL ID-compliant ID showing citizenship, a passport, military ID, a government-issued photo ID showing place of birth in the U.S., other forms of government-issued photo ID if they are accompanied by a birth certificate, comparable document or naturalization certificate.

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Those registering by mail must present proof of citizenship in person.

Picture ID will be required when voting.

Complaints about the bill are that there are those who do not possess any of these options for proving citizenship.

The bill provides other means by which states may establish processes for certifying individuals who have none of the above documentation.

The idea that there are U.S. citizens who will not be able to produce any means for proving or establishing their citizenship is absurd.

Might they have to expend some effort and spend a little money to get what they need? Maybe. But isn’t the point that freedom is not free?

We have individuals who have left their homes abroad and crossed continents to arrive in our country. That an American can’t come up with an acceptable means for proving their citizenship to vote is something only the most welfare-driven mindset, that sees people as feckless victims — which unfortunately so characterizes today’s Democratic Party — could conceive.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the bill “an abomination, Jim Crow 2.0” and assured that Democrats will “do everything we can to stop it.”

Racist Jim Crow voting laws — poll taxes, impossible literacy tests, grandfather clauses and property requirements — were designed as barriers to voting. The principles driving those laws were racism and discrimination.

The principle of the SAVE America Act is that voting as an American is a special and great privilege and responsibility. The only discrimination in this legislation is against those who do not see being an American, living free as an American and voting in our elections as a privilege and responsibility.

Unfortunately, we find too much of this pathology in the progressive mindset.

Talk about rights, responsibility

In a Gallup poll last year, only 58% of those surveyed said they were extremely/very proud to be an American — an all-time low.

However, among Republicans, 92% said they were extremely/very proud. Among Democrats, it was only 36%.

Progressives, who are most inclined to use the power of government to spend our money, are also those least inclined to take personal responsibility as citizens.

Current federal spending stands at around 23% of gross domestic product (GDP). In the 1930s, it was around 10%.

So political control of our GDP has increased by some 130% since the 1930s. The responsibility of voters and politicization of our economy through federal spending have increased dramatically.

For sure, there should be an equally dramatic increase in voter personal responsibility as citizens.

We Americans like to talk about rights. But the other side of the same coin is responsibility.

The SAVE America Act could just as well be called the Responsible Citizenship Act.

Let’s hope this important legislation is passed and signed into law.

Star Parker is founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education

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