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Adjunct Table: Cost of Acquiring SAVE Act – Enumerated Documentary Proof Registration-proof list in H.R. 22 / SAVE Act §2(a), not the later 2026 photo-ID-to-cast-a-ballot list. Scope note. The statute does not enumerate only “IDs.” It mixes IDs with supporting records that must sometimes be paired with an ID. Costs below are acquisition costs only. They do not include travel, time off work, photocopying, mailing, notary fees, or expedite charges. # Act-listed document/category Best-verified acquisition cost Notes 1 REAL ID-compliant ID that indicates U.S. citizenship No single national price. Practical current examples are mostly enhanced state IDs/licences in the five EDL states: MI enhanced ID $30 / enhanced DL $45; MN enhanced surcharge +$15 on top of ordinary ID/DL fees; NY enhanced credential +$30 on top of regular transaction fees; WA first EDL $153 (6y) / $187 (8y), first EID $103 (6y) / $137 (8y). This is one of the slipperiest items in the Act. DHS says only Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington issue enhanced credentials that function as citizenship-confirming documents for land/sea re-entry. Few states issue IDs that would satisfy this part of the Act.1,2,7 11 2 Valid U.S. passport Adult first-time book: $165 total ($130 application + $35 acceptance). Adult first-time card: $65 total ($30 + $35). Book + card: $195 total. Child fees are lower. This is the cleanest nationally fixed price in the Act’s list.1,3
3 Official U.S. military ID card plus military record of service showing U.S. birthplace No retail purchase price identified in the official materials checked. This is not something an ordinary civilian can simply go out and buy. The Act also requires the service record, and it does not standardise the retrieval burden for that companion document.1 4 Government-issued photo ID showing U.S. birthplace No single national price. This category is highly variable and often theoretical, because most ordinary driver’s licences / state IDs do not print birthplace or citizenship. 1 5 Other government-issued photo ID paired with a supporting document No single national price for the base ID. Examples of ordinary state ID/DL pricing: MI standard ID $10 / DL $25; MN standard ID (under 65) $35.50 / Class D DL $46; NY standard non-driver ID $9.50–$14 / Class D DL age 21+ $64.25–$77.50 depending on MCTD; WA standard ID $61 (6y) / $81 (8y), standard DL $111 (6y) / $131 (8y); VT non-driver ID $29, operator’s licence $62 (4y) / $39 (2y). This is the category many people would actually end up using: an ordinary photo ID plus one of the records below.1,7 11 5A Certified birth certificate No national price. Official examples: FL $9, GA $25, CA $31, MI $34 for search/first certified copy. USA.gov says costs vary by state or territory. This is why “just use your birth certificate” is glib.1,12 16 5B Extract from U.S. hospital Record of Birth No national fee. Providers may charge only reasonable costs for copying and mailing, but there is no single nationwide price. Only the patient or personal representative generally has access. 1,4
5C Final adoption decree showing name and U.S. birthplace No single national fee verified. Certified-copy fees are set by the issuing court; there is no obvious national schedule. The Act names the category without supplying any uniform, free acquisition path. 1 5D Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) / certification of Report of Birth Replacement or additional copy: $50. The State Department page located gives the replacement/amendment fee. Initial CRBA issuance is a separate consular process for a child under 18 born abroad to a U.S.-citizen parent.1,5 5E Naturalization Certificate / Certificate of Citizenship / other federal proof under the INA Replacement document: Form N-565 = $505 online / $555 paper. If a person never had a Certificate of Citizenship and needs one issued: Form N-600 = $1,335 online / $1,385 paper. This is one of the most punishing cost items in the whole list.1,6 5F American Indian Card (DHS classification “KIC”) Current public filing fee not verified from an accessible official source. So, no number is asserted here. This row needs a targeted fee lookup if exact costing is required.1
What this table shows: The document list is deceptively simple. The passport row has a clear federal sticker price. Much of the rest does not. Several entries are status-restricted rather than generally obtainable, such as military ID. Several are state-priced rather than nationally priced, such as birth certificates and ordinary state IDs. Several are administratively variable, such as hospital records and court decrees. Some of the heaviest burdens fall on replacement federal citizenship documents, where the price can run into the hundreds or more than a thousand dollars. That is part of why the Act functions as a barrier: it presents “acceptable documents” as if they are ordinary household items, when several are costly, status-limited, or procedurally awkward to obtain.
💸🪪🚫 The SAVE Act’s “proof” regime comes with a price tag: passports, birth certificates, replacement citizenship papers, travel, copies, and delays. For many eligible voters, the barrier is not fraud. It is cost by design. #SAVEAct #VoteSuppression #PollTax ⤵
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A Voter-Suppression Audit of The SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act Researched and written by andy J.S. Decepida Framing the Question The cleanest way to evaluate the SAVE Act is not to begin with partisan outrage, even if outrage is warranted. It is to ask a simpler question: does the bill solve a real problem in a proportionate way, or does it impose broad new burdens on lawful voters in the name of a problem that is already rare and already illegal? The strongest evidence points to the second conclusion.1,2,11‑14 The SAVE Act family of bills, culminating in the 2026 House-passed SAVE America Act, does far more than require proof of citizenship. It redesigns federal voter registration into a document-dependent, in-person, high-liability system. It requires documentary proof of citizenship to register, pushes mail registration into an in-person document-delivery process, requires states to run voter rolls through the federal SAVE database to identify and remove suspected noncitizens, exposes election officials to private lawsuits and criminal penalties, and, in the 2026 version, adds a national photo-ID rule for voting, including vote-by-mail, while explicitly excluding student IDs.1,2 That structure matters. A bill can be formally neutral and still be functionally suppressive. If lawmakers choose administrative mechanisms that are known to fall hardest on younger voters, poorer voters, movers, rural voters, Native voters, naturalized citizens, and voters whose names or records do not line up neatly across government files, then the law’s foreseeable effect is disenfranchisement, whether or not the bill says so out loud.1,8,10,16,25,26
The fairest progressive case against the SAVE Act is therefore not that Republicans have confessed, in so many words, to wanting fewer Democratic votes. The stronger case is that they have chosen a policy design whose burdens are broad, predictable, and unnecessary, even after years of evidence showing that documentary-proof-of-citizenship regimes block eligible citizens at scale while addressing only a vanishingly small amount of actual unlawful voting.10‑13,15 What the Bill Actually Does The core architecture of the SAVE Act has three parts: First, it moves citizenship verification to the front end of registration. Under the bill, registering to vote in federal elections would require documentary proof of United States citizenship, not merely an attestation under penalty of perjury on the federal form. Acceptable documentation can include a passport, certain citizenship or naturalisation records, or specified combinations of photo identification and birth records. The 2026 House-passed version also requires applicants using the national mail registration form to present that proof in person to election officials by the registration deadline. In same-day registration states, that means the proof must be produced at the polling place.1,2 Second, it creates a back-end programme of mass database checking. The 2026 bill requires states to use the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE database to identify registrants thought to be noncitizens and then to remove them through a notice-and-proof process. In other words, the bill is not only about registration. It is also about purges, database matching, and ongoing eligibility surveillance.1,2
Third, it adds punitive enforcement. The bill expands the private right of action under federal voter-registration law and adds criminal penalties that can apply to election officials who register applicants lacking the required documentary proof. This is not a decorative add-on. It predictably pushes administrators toward defensive denial, because the personal and institutional cost of wrongly approving a registration becomes much higher than the cost of wrongly rejecting or delaying one.1,29 The 2026 version then goes further still. It creates a federal photo-ID requirement for in-person voting, allows only narrow provisional-ballot cures for voters who arrive without the required ID, requires mail voters to include either an ID copy or the last four digits of a Social Security number plus an affidavit, and explicitly bars student IDs from the category of acceptable IDs that states may designate. That is not a modest tightening of existing practice. It is a national expansion of both registration burdens and ballot-casting burdens.1 Why the Stated Problem Does Not Justify the Remedy Supporters of the bill say it is needed because noncitizens may register and vote under the existing federal form and because the National Voter Registration Act prevents states from demanding documentary proof at the point of registration. The legal background is real enough. The Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council held that states must accept and use the federal form even if it does not require documentary proof of citizenship, and supporters of the SAVE Act plainly want Congress to rewrite that federal baseline.2,7
But that still leaves the core policy question untouched: how big is the underlying problem? The best evidence says it is vanishingly small. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal. Noncitizen registration and voting claims have been investigated repeatedly by election officials, policy groups, and researchers, and the consistent finding is not that such conduct never occurs, but that it is extremely rare. The Bipartisan Policy Center, the Migration Policy Institute, the Brennan Center, the Centre for Election Innovation and Research, and even libertarian critics of Trump-era fraud claims have all converged on the same bottom line: the scale of documented noncitizen voting is tiny relative to the electorate, and sensational claims routinely collapse under scrutiny.12‑14,30 That matters because the SAVE Act does not target a narrow, high-risk subset of registrations. It imposes a universal front-end proof burden on the entire electorate. When the verified problem is rare, but the remedy is broad, costly, and exclusion-prone, the burden of justification gets much heavier. The drafters of the bill have not met that burden.10‑13 Kansas supplies the clearest real-world warning. Its documentary-proof-of-citizenship regime did not reveal a hidden mass of unlawful voting. Instead, it blocked or suspended tens of thousands of eligible citizens. Nonpartisan summaries have put the figure around 31,000 would-be registrants; litigation-era expert analysis found more than 35,000 affected registrations between 2013 and 2016, with especially heavy effects on younger and unaffiliated voters. That is the wrong ratio by any serious democratic standard: a massive burden on lawful citizens to address a minuscule amount of unlawful activity.10,11,15
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} 🚨🗳️🔥 #GOP are not just trying to tilt the electoral field for the GOP. The SAVE Act weaponizes paperwork, cost, and bureaucracy against younger, lower-income, Native, naturalized, trans, and name-changed voters already pushed to the margins.
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When I grow up, should I be an ICE agent and not do Jack Squat, or be a Republican representative and not do Jack Squat?
#ICE #Airports #TSA #VoteSuppression
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#VoteSuppression #2024 #GregPalastFoundation research.
In the millions. Of votes.
Beware.
www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
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"If they don't have passports, you then need a — you need a birth certificate and you need something else, some kind of photo ID," Corasaniti continued. "And it's also true that a lot of older, rural white voters tend to not have passports or other documentary proof of citizenship. #votesuppression
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“The confusion is the point.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... @marcelias.bsky.social #Texas #votesuppression
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I really hope the Democrats are ready to fight this sort of thing. Ken Paxton, who happens to be in the Republican Senate Primary run-off, was the one who got the voters disenfranchised. #Votesuppression
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IMPO, that's how the swing states we're turned.
And #votesuppression of curse #GregPalast research
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Besides having so much experience in #votesuppression from former #elections according to the research by the #GregPalastFoundation
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari... smart commentary from @normornstein.bsky.social on #GOP #Trump #votesuppression
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fyi @thebulwark.com @thebradblog.bsky.social
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The most corrupt regime in recent American history is RIGHT NOW attempting to subvert this year’s and the next presidential election. #votesuppression #2026midterms #elections
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Join the screening "Vigilantes: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen" Feb 5th
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For the #2020election #GregPalastFoundation did this research of #VoteSuppression
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Marc Elias: "The MEGA Act is a catastrophic proposal for democracy in the United States." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... @indivisiblebham.bsky.social #VotingRights #VoteSuppression
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Thanks to @digitalwarrior.bsky.social
Dirty tricks will get dirtier. Count on it. Prepare to stand up for democracy.
#VoteSuppression #VoterRollPurge #LostVotes
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Beware anybody who wants to piss in the punchbowl. #PartyPoopers #DebbieDowners #Doomsayers #VoteSuppression
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plus #votesuppression in the millions of votes:
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Very recommended.
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#VoteSuppression was a very important tactic of gop in the 2024 election.
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#votesuppression is obviously what the gopers are trying to do - again - in the upcoming election/s:
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Honduras's ruling left-wing Libre party has petitioned to annul the presidential election, citing a compromised vote transmission system and external interference from Donald Trump during the electoral… Bne IntelliNews #HondurasElections #ElectionIntegrity #CyberSecurity #LibreParty #VoteSuppression
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Heads up Georgia! www.democracydocket.com/analysis/geo... #votesuppression #Geogia @marcelias.bsky.social
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#DissolveTheGOP&College #DisqualifiedUnfitToServe #GOPCantWinWithoutCheating #Gerrymandering #VoteSuppression #ForeignInfluence #EndCitizensUnited #EpicEducationFailure #TeachIndividualSocialResponsibility #TeachSocialContract #CivicsSocioEconomicsBasicScienceHistory #MakeRealityAConcensusAgain
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