Kamala Harris is attacking a Republican-backed election integrity bill on the grounds that it would require basic identification documents that she claims 40% of Americans do not possess.
According to the Daily Caller, the failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee used a friendly appearance on left-wing podcaster Aaron Parnas show to denounce the SAVE America Act, now before the Senate, as a tool of suppression rather than a safeguard for the ballot box. Harris argued that the legislation, which would tighten voter registration rules, would especially burden women who have changed their surnames after marriage, even though she herself did not take her husbands last name.
You know what the SAVE Act would do? Require that people show a birth certificate or a passport to register to vote, Harris said on The Parnas Perspective. I dont have the exact numbers in front of me, but its something like 40% of Americans dont have those documents.
She went on to claim that married women would be uniquely disadvantaged by the bills requirements. Married women, if you changed your name and got married, its going to be difficult [as far as] whats on your birth certificate, right? And what thats going to do is complicate the ability of women to register to vote, added Harris. And so this is happening in real time to suppress and obstruct the ability of people to vote.
Harris then broadened her critique, suggesting that recent unrest in Minneapolis was part of a darker pattern. And then my concern, frankly, Aaron, is that, when we saw what happened in Minneapolis, I think we really need to understand that in addition to everything that was obvious about it, it might have been basically a demonstration and a beta testing of the militarizing of the streets of America to intimidate people against voting, and using federal officials to intimidate people to not vote, Harris said.
The SAVE America Act would establish a nationwide photo ID requirement for voting a measure backed by 83% of Americans and even 71% of Democrats, according to an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey. The bill would also require proof of U.S. citizenship to register, a basic standard in most advanced democracies but one that Democratic leaders routinely portray as discriminatory.
President Donald Trump has endorsed the legislation as a necessary step to restore confidence in elections after years of controversy and lax enforcement. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, by contrast, smeared the proposal during a Feb. 15 CNN interview as Jim Crow 2.0, underscoring how far the Democratic Party has shifted toward equating routine identification rules with segregation-era racism, even as most voters including many in their own base support stronger safeguards at the polls.
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