The latest iteration of the Save America act could disenfranchise millions of voters. Guardian democracy reporters George Chidi and Sam Levine will be taking readers\u2019 questions at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) on Wednesday about its implications. Post yours now<\/p>\n
Sign in<\/strong><\/a> or <\/strong>create your Guardian account<\/strong><\/a> to join the discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest version of the Save America act could, if it is passed, upend voting for all Americans in the middle of a federal midterm election year and create costly, chaotic changes for elections workers. As this explainer<\/a> by Rachel Leingang sets out: \u201cthis year\u2019s version [of Save] includes expansive documentary proof of citizenship requirements and criminal liability for election officials from the initial Save act, in addition to a very strict voter ID requirement for casting a ballot and a provision that requires states to regularly turn their voter rolls over to the Department of Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n George Chidi<\/strong> is the Guardian\u2019s politics and democracy correspondent. His recent reporting has included looking at the states bringing in strict proof-0f-citizenship requirements<\/a> to register to vote and covering efforts by the FBI to investigate Fulton county in Georgia over the 2020 election<\/a>, the results of which are still challenged by Donald Trump\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest iteration of the Save America act could disenfranchise millions of voters. Guardian democracy reporters George Chidi and Sam Levine will be taking readers\u2019 questions at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) on Wednesday about its implications. Post yours now Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion The latest version of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}