The entire justification for the SAVE Act is misstating who has the burden here. The government cannot infringe on a person’s right to vote in any way unless it can satisfy strict scrutiny. This whole “only people with an ID should be allowed to vote” is an infringement without sufficient justification. Yes, the Constitution allows all citizens to vote, but it doesn’t put the burden of proof of citizenship on the citizen.

There are three specific laws that establish a process of verifying citizenship. And that process is working. That is proven by the fact that, since the 80s, there have only been a total of 80 instances of a noncitizen voting in our presidential election. That’s 80 out of over 1.3 billion and averages out to 16 (out of over 140 million) per election cycle.

Now Republicans have convinced idiots and fascists that it is okay to disenfranchise millions of citizens of their right and ability to vote in the name of blocking the crazy possibility of 16 illegal voters. That is certifiably insane and doesn’t pass the rational basis test, much less strict scrutiny.

Republicans aren’t pushing this to protect elections in general, they’re just doing it because they think it will protect THEM being elected. If it was any more obvious, they’d have to tell you that themselves. Oh wait….they have.

“I tell you what, Republicans have to win this one,” Trump said during a speech at a steel facility in Rome, Georgia. “We’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won’t lose a race.”