Republicans reject SAVE Act amendments aimed at protecting women's votes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : " The amendments were introduced as a "Previous Question," a procedural tool to change bills, and would have required additional research and certification before passing the bill to ensure the law's new requirements would not disenfranchise millions of people.
51% : Those purges often result in taking American citizens off the rolls, meaning they would have to reregister under the new parameters of the SAVE Act.
50% : " Jonathan Diaz told Newsweek: "The top line is that the SAVE Act would create really significant new burdens on Americans to register to vote.
48% : Republicans have said the SAVE Act is necessary to prevent noncitizen voting.
48% : They ensured that, if passed, they could not guarantee the voting rights safety of several groups of Americans under the SAVE Act.
46% : Representative Dexter brought forward amendments to the SAVE Act on April 1 which were intended to protect married women, military service members, people of color, native communities, survivors of domestic violence, seniors, people with disabilities, and rural residents.
46% : [States] don't have the money and the resources to do this without appropriations from Congress, which the bill doesn't provide for.
45% : Representative Roy told Newsweek previously that the SAVE Act has provisions to allow states to make their own exceptions for aspects of the law.
40% : She introduced these amendments to "[force] a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives requiring Republicans to defend their anti-woman, voter suppression bill, the SAVE Act.
37% : However, Jonathan Diaz, director of voting advocacy and partnerships at Campaign Legal Center, pushed back on this, telling Newsweek that the bill does not appropriate money for state electoral facilities, which would make it significantly more difficult for individual states to make their own laws built around the SAVE Act.
36% : Although people who are already registered to vote may think the SAVE Act will not apply to them, the bill also requires frequent voter roll purges.

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