But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support.

Checks source: oh, looks like The Hill is manufacturing consent again.

There is no way 70% of people support this.

the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71% support the SAVE America Act.

I highly doubt that most of those people polled have any idea of what Republicans actually mean by "proof of citizenship". I would bet money they just think it means showing your driver's license and/or social security card.

In reality, it means having to show a valid passport (which is a massive pain in the ass to obtain) or having a copy of your birth certificate (also a huge pain in the butt to get).

Polls lie, always have and always will. It's not about the question but how you ask it.

But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71 percent support the SAVE America Act.

That's pretty depressing. But then, I suppose low-information people would support any bill if they just called it "The Good Law Act."

Oh, right, that's basically what they did when they passed the, what was it called, Big Conservative Wet Dream Bill last year.

Edit: Oh, seeing the headlines alongside the poll that are all extremely suspect and right-washing, I wanted to check further.

Despite that TheHill reports uncritically about it and it is somehow associated with Harvard, the poll was commissioned by Stagwell Global, a marketing firm that is run by Mark Penn, who is apparently a "deep state" conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, and contact info for the poll is not Harvard, but Stagwell, who also somehow was allowed to "release" the poll ("Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll...").

All in all I feel the most likely fit for the above is this is propaganda and not reliable.

The hill can take a propaganda at my nuts if they think I’m gonna buy that poll as anything other than biased.

I wonder how many of those 1999 registered voters would be disenfranchised if this came into effect, but don't realize it because they didn't read what 'documented proof of citizenship' actually entails...

They still need 60 votes to pass it and that just isn't going to happen without major concessions. If they make the ID free and automatically issue it to all registered voters and make election day a national holiday then it may have a snowballs chance at getting through

What Is The SAVE America Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_American_Voter_Eligibility_Act

Opposition

Non-citizens voting in federal elections has been proven to be extremely rare and is already illegal under Section 216 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.[9][10][11]

Opponents of the bill argue that it is intended to suppress voter turnout, as voter registration forms already require driver's license numbers or the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number in compliance with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which registrars are required to use under HAVA to confirm eligibility through databases maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Postal Service.[7][12] An analysis by the Center for American Progress found some voters in Alaska and Hawaii would need to fly to reach their election office in accordance with the in person requirement to vote by mail.[13] The analysis also found that an estimated 69 million women and 4 million men have a last name that does not match their birth certificate.[14] This provision would similarly impact transgender people whose legal names do not match their birth certificates.[15][10]

Research from the Brennan Center, "indicates that more than 9 percent of American citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, don't have proof of citizenship readily available".[16] The center said the act "would compel voter roll purges that are bound to sweep in eligible American voters" and that "when Arizona and Kansas implemented similar policies at the state level, tens of thousands of eligible citizens were blocked from registering", concluding, "the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship requirement is a solution in search of a problem".[2]

According to the U.S. Vote Foundation, the SAVE Act would jeopardize voting registration access for US military service members serving abroad and other US citizens resident overseas.[17]

It does not have support from the public, but his goons have probably supported the measure in the public sphere. You don't get invited to vote if you are not a citizen. There is not some giant conspiracy where a bunch of illegal immigrants are voting at the polling booths. Those are lies, the only people caught cheating are good ol boys voting for dead grandma. The rest of it has been fair and heavily scrutinized, you're a complete fool if you believe otherwise.

Most people in a democracy care about clean, fair elections and work towards making them so. This only adds a roadblock to the disenfranchised and the poor.

How many republican women have access to a qualifying passport with their maiden name?!