Whether it's acceptable to mention it in polite discourse or not, the fascist GOP's plan to formalize national targeted voter suppression based on fascist conspiracy theories designed to explain why a bloviating reality TV show nazi lost the 2020 US presidential election, is a form of election rigging. We've already discussed Der Führer's recent (blatantly illegal) executive order to do just that, but the Republican plan to fuck elections and create their own permanent Pork Reich is a multi-pronged assault. One of the key spearheads in this quest to, again, rig elections by disenfranchising millions of voters who are statistically more likely to support the opposition party, is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save Act, currently being cooked up in a GOP fascist-controlled Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/congress-republicans-save-act-voting-rights

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

"According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, more than 21 million US citizens of voting age don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship documents, and only about half of American adults have a passport, while millions do not have access to paper copies of their birth certificates. Married women whose legal names do not match their birth certificates could be disenfranchised by the Save Act, and folks looking to obtain lost or misplaced birth certificates would face financial and logistical hurdles.

The Save Act would restrict voters’ ability to register to vote online and through the mail while also severely limiting the ability of non-partisan civic organizations to conduct voter registration drives, which have been crucial to civic engagement for more than a century. That’s because, despite voters’ ability to register to vote at the DMV and registration efforts by political parties, data shows that voter registration drives from non-partisan organizations can account for about one-fifth of voter registration applicants – roughly equal to the political power of California, Florida and Texas combined. We simply cannot sit back and allow Congress or the White House to destroy the infrastructure of our elections by disenfranchising so many voters."

Look, I know Trump's unhinged fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election make most liberals very leery about uttering the words "rigging elections" but at some point you have to accept that you can't stop reality from being real, just because naming the beast makes you squeamish. Targeted voter suppression by the GOP has become so normalized that in a recent(ish) battle over election maps that clearly sought to minimize the political power of African American voters, GOP operatives defended themselves from charges of racial bias by saying they weren't restricting voters because they're Black, but rather because they vote Democrat. This is election rigging, by a fascist regime, headed up by a would-be King who keeps musing about violating the Constitution to seek a third term, and it's probably time to be honest with ourselves about what that actually means - an attempt to permanently install the US Republican brand of fascism in our society by preventing free and fair elections (such as those exist, in America.)

I mean let's cut the crap here for a second okay? The Save Act specifically targets voter registrations drives because the fascist GOP is openly arguing that registering people to vote, is somehow rigging elections. Let that sink in for a minute folks; a fascist regime is trying to rig elections through nationalized voter suppression because, and they essentially admit this, if everyone gets to vote they might lose power. The fact that this type of thinking and rhetoric is considered "normal" for the right wing party in America doesn't prove these guys aren't fascist, just that America has been embracing, normalizing, and ignoring fascism for a very long time before Donald Trump ran for office.

@JTO_is_Typing @hacks4pancakes Doesn't look like that includes information about birthplace or citizenship anywhere. Which makes sense, given DLs don't have a whole lot of real estate, but is going to make the #SAVEAct as written pretty difficult for the states to manage - and that's over and above everything that's wrong with it from a #VotingRights point of view.

@hacks4pancakes I'm seeing lots of folks saying that there's nothing in the text of the bill that says a driver's license with your married name won't work.
I invite you to go look at your driver's license & then come back & tell us which line states your citizenship status or place of birth.
"Nowhere" = good guess.
If you're a married woman who took her spouse's last name, birth certificate won't help. #SAVEAct

@zenkat @Bookworm33333

As I mentioned elsewhere, I just called my #NewJersey Senators #CoryBooker and #AndyKim and demanded they filibuster the #SAVEAct if/when it comes to the Senate. Then I called to ask my House rep to vote it down — and there’s also this @resistbot campaign started by @jesscraven101 that you can email or fax your reps with:

https://resist.bot/petitions/PKFOYU

I called my #NewJersey Senators #CoryBooker and #AndyKim and demanded they filibuster the #SAVEAct if/when it comes to the Senate. Then I called to ask my House rep to vote it down — and there’s also this @resistbot campaign started by @jesscraven101 that you can email or fax your reps with:

https://resist.bot/petitions/PKFOYU