Sometimes an accusation is really an admission. And how else can you look at Sen. Schumer’s tweet here.
“Let’s call it like it is Sen Tom Cotton: The SAVE Act would disenfranchise over 21 MILLION Americans.”
Democrats fight any voter ID requirements or any calls to clean up the voter rolls in general by claiming that voter integrity would ‘disenfranchise’ Americans. Especially any kinds of minorities who are incapable of getting or possessing any kind of ID.
But the ’21 million’ here is a telling and damning number because many associate that with the number of illegal aliens in the country. The actual number is far larger, but the 21 million number has been routinely used, including by Trump.
The 21 million number came from the ACLU which claimed that “this legislation would require passports or birth certificates just to register to vote or update voter registration information — documents that an estimated 21 million eligible voters don’t have ready access to.”
Why don’t they have access to them if they’re eligible voters?
“More than 21 million Americans are unable to access the additional documents that would be required to register to vote under these bills. People of color, married people who have changed their names, as well as young and elderly people are more likely to have difficulty in accessing these documents. Under these bills, most voters wouldn’t be able to register to vote with their driver’s license alone, because licenses generally do not indicate citizenship. Instead, they would need another less common form of documentation, like a U.S. passport or birth certificate,” another leftist group claims.
It was liberal states that decided to issue licenses to illegal aliens. Then having done that, they complain that licenses aren’t eligible for voter registration.
Anyone can get a passport. Many of the same people who supposedly can’t get passports are foreign nationals who had passports in order to come here… unless they didn’t have those passports at all and illegally crossed the border.
The 21 million figure here is no coincidence. The people Dems claim will be ‘disenfranchised’, never had the franchise.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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