SAVE Act

The republicans behind the SAVE act would have you believe that this is about securing our election system.  Which is protecting a system that has, despite a myriad of investigations, shown minimal fraud. Like single digits, not percentages, votes.   
When it passes, it means we all have to absolutely prove we are citizens.  And what is wrong with that?  We have done similar things before.  See the Poll Tax or Jim Crow laws on elections https://www.history.com/articles/jim-crow-laws-black-vote.  These laws were designed to suppress the vote of undesirables.  IE Blacks.  And this is what the SAVE act is designed to do.  Except that while Jim Crow were state and local laws, SAVE will be national.
Why is SAVE being put forth?  Because the Republicans know that with all the mismanagement, treason and thievery that this administration is doing, with their full and willing consent, that they are going to be routed from the field next election cycle.  Now they could mitigate that loss by acting responsibly from here on out, but that is ridiculous.  So plan B is to reduce the electorate opposition to the point where their dedicated 39% of the voters can squeak them by in 2026.
Who does SAVE affect?
Everyone will need at least a Passport or birth certificate to vote.
Married Women.  Even the birth certificate is not enough.  You have to provide the marriage certificate to show the name change.  Divorced and remarried?  You have to show a chain of certificates to prove a chain between your current name and birth certificate.  
NOTE HERE, REAL ID's, which was considered the penultimate ID of the land, is NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the SAVE Act.
Native American Tribal ID's are NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the SAVE Act.
Military ID's are NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the SAVE Act.
If you move, and 1 in 7 Americans move every year, and do not present the applicable documentation to reregister, you will not be allowed to vote.
Many Americans will not be able to access the additional documents needed here.  This is what the bill is designed to do.  Not to protect the election process, but to create the attitude of "fuck it, I'm just one vote, what does it matter?"  It will generate millions of "fuck its."
Oh, voting by mail, what will be out the window.  Because even though it was the Republicans that pushed for vote by mail, in order to raise their number of rural voters, it is the Democrats that dominate the mail voting, by about 2-1.  
Enough to where election day results were considered the "red mirage."  FYI, this phrase was coined in 2013.  Long before the serial-liar-in-chief complained about it.

So what are the results?  If enacted today, at least 146 million Americans could not vote under the SAVE act.  It would cause a radical suppression of the vote by women, minorities, and the poor.
It will also suppress the vote in southern states.  But there the R's have enough of a voter advantage that they do not care.  It will shift the votes to the D column in the northern states.  
 
But the real effect is that it will give even more reason for our elected officials to ignore our voice.  Because that voice will not count as much anymore.