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Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s version of the SAVE Act into law, pro-voting groups moved swiftly to challenge the severe new voting restrictions, asking a federal court to block the state from requiring voters to prove their citizenship status.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s state version of the sweeping anti-voting SAVE America Act into law Wednesday. The law would impose new voting restrictions requiring voters to prove their citizenship status and also remove student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.
President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm elections by pushing GOP-controlled states to redraw congressional maps isn’t over yet.
MAGA’s push to ram through the most restrictive voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress is coming to a head.
Florida lawmakers passed the final version of the state’s SAVE America Act, an anti-voting law pushed by President Donald Trump nationally, after House and Senate leaders Thursday reconciled differences between their versions of the bill.
Florida lawmakers are poised to approve sweeping new restrictions that would require voters to prove their citizenship status, as well as remove student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
The Florida House of Representatives voted 83-31 Wednesday to move forward with a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of Floridians, at least, by creating new requirements for citizenship checks.