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I read your email, and conclude that in other words this law actually does nothing to "strengthen existing federal law that prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and to clarify that noncitizens are also barred from voting in state and local elections." (1) Just because MOST of your Maine constituents will not be adversely affected by its provisions, Mainers are not the only Americans. You are elected to represent us, but not by helping to disenfranchise other Americans. And your duty is to represent ALL your constituents, INCLUDING those who will be adversely affected by the so-called SAVE Act. (2) Federal and state laws already prohibit non-citizens from voting and effectively discover and punish those vanishingly few who attempt to do so. (3) The only real voter fraud - another vanishingly small amount - is NOT from non-citizens either registering to vote or from voting, but from registered voters intentionally (not by mistake, because that WOULD NOT BE FRAUD) trying to cast a vote for someone else. The whole "voter fraud" issue is culture war nonsense created out of whole cloth by the voter-suppression-positive GOP. AND YOU AND THEY KNOW IT. Shame on you for buying into their attempts to further divide this country and perpetrating them within Maine.

Dear Mainer: The SAVE Act and the politics of fear
Apr 28
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