Democrat Senator Repeats Wacky Theory That SAVE Act Means Married Women Won’t Be Able To Vote

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla told MS NOW host Ali Velshi on Sunday that married women would be unable to prove they could vote if the SAVE Act were enacted.

The House of Representatives passed the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo ID for voting, on Wednesday by a 216-213 vote, sending it to the Senate, where it faces a tough road for passage due to united Democratic opposition. Velshi and Padilla claimed the legislation’s purpose was “discouraging people from voting.”

“What about this nonsense about providing citizenship proof every time you vote, right? You guys do audit the voter rolls. So the point is, you know who’s on it, you make adjustments, you audit, you throw people off and you put extra people on,” Velshi claimed. “This is not a thing. I mean, I literally talk about discouraging people from voting, women who’ve changed their names that don’t match their birth certificate, their marriage name — married name doesn’t match their birth certificate, their license doesn’t match their birth certificate. This is nonsensical.”

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“Right, absolutely nonsensical. I mean, to insist on bringing your birth certificate or — or a passport, most — most, a lot of Americans don’t even have a passport because not everybody travels internationally,” Padilla claimed. “It’s the equivalent of a show me your papers law to be able to exercise your fundamental constitutional right to vote. And who would be impacted? You know, the SAVE Act may sound good in some quarters. You know, one big example is what you just said, a woman who may choose to change her name when she gets married. All of a sudden her birth certificate name is different than her ID. And that becomes a problem. It’s never been a problem. It isn’t a problem.”