Good. A drivers license should be sufficient enough to vote.
B-Z_B-S on
The Voter Suppression Bill *will* fail.
AggressiveAnt7613 on
its sad how many people look at this SAVE crap as common sense. I read this and see that it says an ID that shows citizenship….. Only a passport fulfills that requirement. So that means everyone that doesn’t have one has to gather a bunch of docs that they have hidden away and bring them to someone that may just say they are fake and you weren’t born in Hawaii…. obviously this birth certifcate from 1950 is fake, it doesnt have a watermark or a hologram…. sheesh!
thethrill_707 on
It’s the only way they can win is to cheat. Everyone knows this. Trumps polling numbers are in the toilet due to an unpopular war, Americans getting shot in the streets, and gas at $4.00 a gallon. When you back a candidate of unfathomable stupidity and absent morals – you got to rig the game to win.
Titan3692 on
The difference really is that they will effectively end voter registration drives and easy same day registration. The impact will vary based on the state. But I’ve read that generally speaking, you’d have to go to a county office to register to vote. Because a bureaucrat will have to cross check your ID with your birth certificate. That on its face seems reasonable, but the process should be universally accessible. We know that’s not gonna happen because they’re not gonna allocate a single cent to streamline it. Plus, it sounds like they want to make it retroactive. Therefore, they are going to purge all the voter rolls all the way down to zero and start everything from scratch. It’s amazing that when they make cuts to social programs they wait five years when the bill passes. But they want to start this now? There is no infrastructure for it.
purplebrown_updown on
Good. Fuck the Trump admin. The only thing that should be accepted is TSA funding.
Historical_Bend_2629 on
I am convinced that this headline purposefully lacks nuance. I take any headline coming from CBS with a huge grain of salt these days.
JakobVirgil on
Cool there is hope for this country
KoalaBoy on
I understand one side wants to prevent people from voting and the other says the system in place now isn’t an issue. But wouldn’t the proper compromise be I can mail away or go online and provide my name, SSN, and address, and get my free voter’s card, because wouldn’t a SSN let the government verify I am allowed to vote or not? I can fill out a form on docusign and have it verify who I am by asking about cars I’ve owned, addresses I’ve lived at or loans I’ve had, so I know information to verify I am who I say I am exists.
All that would require is you know your SSN and if you don’t then you have other issues.
sonicmario123 on
As someone who actually works as a poll worker. The SAVE Act will disenfranchise people. Here in NC the state lowkey already sets people for failure.
Edit: typo…
welestgw on
I mean it already works as is, ID to make voting easier and the non-id voters needing more validation. There’s no need to make new laws to force it unless the government pays for it or accepts a wide set of id types.
MayIServeYouWell on
Better headline: Bill to require a $165 passport to vote is rejected by common sense.
brain_overclocked on
>Schumer said it would require people who vote by mail to include a photocopy of their ID with their ballot, which would eliminate the secrecy of how someone voted.
>Husted accused Schumer of misrepresenting how the mail-in ballot process would work. He said voters would include a photo of their ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the outside of the secrecy envelope containing the ballot. The information would be validated to ensure that it’s from a registered voter before separating it from the ballot, which would be counted separately, he said.
Narrator: “It would, in fact, *not* be separated.”
amonkeysbanana on
I’m sorry does this mean it actually is dead? I know they’re meant to vote today but it seems like this changes twice a day.
Jk I see it was killed as an amendment. Still need to turn down SAVE act
UseYourIndoorVoice on
The bigger problem with this bill that isn’t being talked about enough, is that it makes states share their voter info with the federal government. And it allows monthly purges of the voter rolls without notifying the person being purged.
krom0025 on
The post title is being awfully generous to the bill. It does way more than that.
TransitJohn on
Unconstitutional poll taxes are Unconstitutional
Maverick721 on
I’ll take a long line in the airport over losing my right to vote
Gronkattack on
If it’s truly about election integrity and not voter suppression the ID would be easily obtainable for eligible voters and be free. There are enough people in this country that even $25 for a valid id could turn them away from participating.
bensquirrel on
this is lousy reporting
Ok-disaster2022 on
Can we get the federal government to issue a free national id? Let it be normal for a decade. Have it be a secure number unlike the social security number. Let people be able to change the number over their lifetime to escape abusers, stalkers, and Id theft.
monoglot on
I don’t understand what this is an amendment to. If it’s to the SAVE America Act, how is it different from what’s already in the bill?
GarySparrow0 on
They should introduce ID for voting. That way Democrats in swing states can ensure the DMV in republican pockets is short staffed and closes early around election times.
hukkit on
Insane framing on the headline
Rattus_NorvegicUwUs on
“It’s common sense”
Sure, mike, but so is taxing the rich, but you ain’t doing that any time soon.
Mean_Rule9823 on
Of course
Pope_Dwayne_Johnson on
I can get on board with ID to vote if we provide free IDs with little to no barriers to obtain.
Voting is the foundational right that cannot be infringed.
pomonamike on
CBS, that’s not what the bill said. That’s not a good-faith summation and you know it.
Swordf1sh_ on
As always, fuck CBS for the wording of this headline.
ParevArev on
Provide me with an ID and I’m all for it otherwise I ain’t going outta my way with 2 jobs and 2 little kids. That’s my stance on it
kevendo on
It is appalling that this got this far and that so many of you reading this fell for this so hard.
It is not “common sense”, not today in March 2026.
It is an effort at *mass voter suppression* based on “voter fraud” lies perpetuated by the President. Baseless nonsense.
It would disenfranchise millions, possibly tens of millions of voters on order to save 3 from misvoting in Kentucky.
Shame on every single liberal who is still taking any of this on good faith. We can discuss modern voting practices another time when it’s not an autocrat openly intending to end the republic.
ZeeBalls on
The SAVE Act is not gonna pass. The Trump admin knows this. It’s not supposed to.
Its purpose is midterms. Once the House, Senate, or both starts to flip blue, Trump will cry “cheating!” and “this was why the radical left didn’t pass the SAVE Act!”
As for the maga base, most our too obtuse to realize that America isn’t going to pass a bill on election security from a criminal that tried to cheat at an election.
snoopingforpooping on
It’s a Poll Tax!
wowlock_taylan on
They fact that they are DESPERATE to get these voting suppression bills passed shows how scared they are.
KingDarius89 on
Good.
sticksnstouts on
Our country’s voter participation levels are pathetic. We should do everything possible to make it easier, not harder, for Americans to vote. Republicans do not want Americans to vote because their policies are cruel and incredibly unpopular.
Kat_Schrodinger1 on
The parties are not the same.
ChrisM778 on
Yeah, CBS is turning into a gateway to right wing propaganda networks. CBS tries to give “sensible” but spin on this article is crazy in comparison to pre-Weiss CBS.
ottomaticg on
How about the feds roll out a free federal id that includes proof of citizenship and then we can decide how it’s used. Took 20 years to roll out real id for state drivers license.
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Good. A drivers license should be sufficient enough to vote.
The Voter Suppression Bill *will* fail.
its sad how many people look at this SAVE crap as common sense. I read this and see that it says an ID that shows citizenship….. Only a passport fulfills that requirement. So that means everyone that doesn’t have one has to gather a bunch of docs that they have hidden away and bring them to someone that may just say they are fake and you weren’t born in Hawaii…. obviously this birth certifcate from 1950 is fake, it doesnt have a watermark or a hologram…. sheesh!
It’s the only way they can win is to cheat. Everyone knows this. Trumps polling numbers are in the toilet due to an unpopular war, Americans getting shot in the streets, and gas at $4.00 a gallon. When you back a candidate of unfathomable stupidity and absent morals – you got to rig the game to win.
The difference really is that they will effectively end voter registration drives and easy same day registration. The impact will vary based on the state. But I’ve read that generally speaking, you’d have to go to a county office to register to vote. Because a bureaucrat will have to cross check your ID with your birth certificate. That on its face seems reasonable, but the process should be universally accessible. We know that’s not gonna happen because they’re not gonna allocate a single cent to streamline it. Plus, it sounds like they want to make it retroactive. Therefore, they are going to purge all the voter rolls all the way down to zero and start everything from scratch. It’s amazing that when they make cuts to social programs they wait five years when the bill passes. But they want to start this now? There is no infrastructure for it.
Good. Fuck the Trump admin. The only thing that should be accepted is TSA funding.
I am convinced that this headline purposefully lacks nuance. I take any headline coming from CBS with a huge grain of salt these days.
Cool there is hope for this country
I understand one side wants to prevent people from voting and the other says the system in place now isn’t an issue. But wouldn’t the proper compromise be I can mail away or go online and provide my name, SSN, and address, and get my free voter’s card, because wouldn’t a SSN let the government verify I am allowed to vote or not? I can fill out a form on docusign and have it verify who I am by asking about cars I’ve owned, addresses I’ve lived at or loans I’ve had, so I know information to verify I am who I say I am exists.
All that would require is you know your SSN and if you don’t then you have other issues.
As someone who actually works as a poll worker. The SAVE Act will disenfranchise people. Here in NC the state lowkey already sets people for failure.
Edit: typo…
I mean it already works as is, ID to make voting easier and the non-id voters needing more validation. There’s no need to make new laws to force it unless the government pays for it or accepts a wide set of id types.
Better headline: Bill to require a $165 passport to vote is rejected by common sense.
>Schumer said it would require people who vote by mail to include a photocopy of their ID with their ballot, which would eliminate the secrecy of how someone voted.
>Husted accused Schumer of misrepresenting how the mail-in ballot process would work. He said voters would include a photo of their ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the outside of the secrecy envelope containing the ballot. The information would be validated to ensure that it’s from a registered voter before separating it from the ballot, which would be counted separately, he said.
Narrator: “It would, in fact, *not* be separated.”
I’m sorry does this mean it actually is dead? I know they’re meant to vote today but it seems like this changes twice a day.
Jk I see it was killed as an amendment. Still need to turn down SAVE act
The bigger problem with this bill that isn’t being talked about enough, is that it makes states share their voter info with the federal government. And it allows monthly purges of the voter rolls without notifying the person being purged.
The post title is being awfully generous to the bill. It does way more than that.
Unconstitutional poll taxes are Unconstitutional
I’ll take a long line in the airport over losing my right to vote
If it’s truly about election integrity and not voter suppression the ID would be easily obtainable for eligible voters and be free. There are enough people in this country that even $25 for a valid id could turn them away from participating.
this is lousy reporting
Can we get the federal government to issue a free national id? Let it be normal for a decade. Have it be a secure number unlike the social security number. Let people be able to change the number over their lifetime to escape abusers, stalkers, and Id theft.
I don’t understand what this is an amendment to. If it’s to the SAVE America Act, how is it different from what’s already in the bill?
They should introduce ID for voting. That way Democrats in swing states can ensure the DMV in republican pockets is short staffed and closes early around election times.
Insane framing on the headline
“It’s common sense”
Sure, mike, but so is taxing the rich, but you ain’t doing that any time soon.
Of course
I can get on board with ID to vote if we provide free IDs with little to no barriers to obtain.
Voting is the foundational right that cannot be infringed.
CBS, that’s not what the bill said. That’s not a good-faith summation and you know it.
As always, fuck CBS for the wording of this headline.
Provide me with an ID and I’m all for it otherwise I ain’t going outta my way with 2 jobs and 2 little kids. That’s my stance on it
It is appalling that this got this far and that so many of you reading this fell for this so hard.
It is not “common sense”, not today in March 2026.
It is an effort at *mass voter suppression* based on “voter fraud” lies perpetuated by the President. Baseless nonsense.
It would disenfranchise millions, possibly tens of millions of voters on order to save 3 from misvoting in Kentucky.
Shame on every single liberal who is still taking any of this on good faith. We can discuss modern voting practices another time when it’s not an autocrat openly intending to end the republic.
The SAVE Act is not gonna pass. The Trump admin knows this. It’s not supposed to.
Its purpose is midterms. Once the House, Senate, or both starts to flip blue, Trump will cry “cheating!” and “this was why the radical left didn’t pass the SAVE Act!”
As for the maga base, most our too obtuse to realize that America isn’t going to pass a bill on election security from a criminal that tried to cheat at an election.
It’s a Poll Tax!
They fact that they are DESPERATE to get these voting suppression bills passed shows how scared they are.
Good.
Our country’s voter participation levels are pathetic. We should do everything possible to make it easier, not harder, for Americans to vote. Republicans do not want Americans to vote because their policies are cruel and incredibly unpopular.
The parties are not the same.
Yeah, CBS is turning into a gateway to right wing propaganda networks. CBS tries to give “sensible” but spin on this article is crazy in comparison to pre-Weiss CBS.
How about the feds roll out a free federal id that includes proof of citizenship and then we can decide how it’s used. Took 20 years to roll out real id for state drivers license.