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Booths await voters at the Pennington County Administration Building during early voting on Jan. 19 for a municipal election in Rapid City, South Dakota. (Tupper\/South Dakota Searchlight).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The voting overhaul measure that the U.S. Senate began debating Tuesday<\/a> would cause major headaches for underfunded state and local election officials, without meaningfully stopping fraud, according to a collection of voting rights advocates and elections officers.<\/p>\n

The so-called SAVE America Act, which President Donald Trump is relentlessly pushing, would create chaos for state and local elections administrators by immediately imposing several new requirements without adding funding, former North Carolina elections chief Karen Brinson Bell said on a press call Tuesday organized by Washington U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot emphasize enough the Herculean effort that the SAVE America Act would present for election officials across this country,\u201d Brinson Bell, who now advises election officials as a co-founder of the group Advance Elections, said. \u201cPlease do not set our country or these public servants up for failure. Bring us to the table. Develop this legislation properly and provide adequate funding and resources so we can all succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

No new money<\/h4>\n

The bill would initially add $35 million in costs for Washington state to administer this year\u2019s midterm elections, Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said. The measure would cost an estimated additional $12 million annually in presidential election years for the state\u2019s elections administrators, he added.<\/p>\n

But it would not provide federal funding for states and localities to meet the new costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I looked at the SAVE America Act to understand how it would affect election administration, I did a control-F for the dollar sign, and I did not see a single dollar, much less the hundreds of millions needed to implement these changes,\u201d Brinson Bell said.<\/p>\n

The bill, which Trump and other proponents say is necessary to stop immigrants from voting, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. They would also have to provide a photo ID at polling places.<\/p>\n

But the measure \u201cis the very definition of a solution in search of a problem,\u201d Kimsey said on Tuesday\u2019s call. Noncitizens voting in federal elections is exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n

Barriers for voting by mail<\/h4>\n

Overall, the bill would make voting more difficult, especially for people who have changed their names, tribal citizens and people without photo ID, participants on the call said. That counters the goal of elections officials: to make voting easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t that the wrong people are voting,\u201d Kimsey said. \u201cThe problem is that not enough people are voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill would also create barriers for vote-by-mail, which Washington and other states have used for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The system has increased voter participation and is widely popular across party lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of Washington\u2019s vote-by-mail system is such a strong system,\u201d Cantwell said. \u201cThe whole country should be moving more towards that and not away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voting integrity<\/h4>\n

The bill\u2019s backers, including most Republicans in Congress, say it would erect commonsense safeguards to protect U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday floor speech setting up debate on the measure, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune called it \u201cessential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s anything essential to the integrity of elections, it\u2019s ensuring that those who are registered to vote are eligible to vote \u2013 and that those who show up to vote at polling places are \u2026 who they say they are,\u201d Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said.<\/p>\n

The way to do that, he added, was to require proof of citizenship and photo identification.<\/p>\n

Photo IDs, though, aren\u2019t as universal as commonly thought, League of Women Voters of Maine Executive Director Chrissy Hart said.<\/p>\n

Eighteen percent of citizens older than 65 lack a photo ID, as well as 16% of Latino voters, 25% of Black voters and 15% of low-income Americans, Hart said.<\/p>\n

Election denial<\/h4>\n

Kimsey, who identified as a Republican during his first run for office in 1998 and became an independent after the pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol following the 2020 election, was asked if the measure was a continuation of Trump\u2019s efforts to undermine U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

He answered that what he deemed the \u201celection denial movement\u201d lost momentum after Trump\u2019s 2024 victory, but that it seemed to be reappearing ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, this is nothing more than a very clumsy \u2014 and I hope not effective \u2014 but a very clumsy attempt to create chaos in this year\u2019s midterm elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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