Chuck Schumer says voter ID is Jim Crow
Of course he does:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday condemned legislation requiring ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote as “nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0.”
Probably more like Jim Crow 2000.0, since the Democrats are fond of calling nearly everything the GOP proposes “Jim Crow.”
So, how would a person prove citizenship under the SAVE Act as proposed? If you listen to the left, “millions” couldn’t comply even though they are citizens:
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
The article then goes on and on about passports, as though that’s the way it needs to be done, and although it’s already said birth certificates are fine. It mentions that real IDs wouldn’t work for the purpose.
But what does the legislation actually say? This:
As used in this Act, the term ‘documentary proof of United States citizenship’ means, with respect to an applicant for voter registration, any of the following:
“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.
“(2) A valid United States passport.
“(3) The applicant’s official United States military identification card, together with a United States military record of service showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.
“(4) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.
“(5) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government other than an identification described in paragraphs (1) through (4), but only if presented together with one or more of the following:
“(A) A certified birth certificate issued by a State, a unit of local government in a State, or a Tribal government which—
“(i) was issued by the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;
“(ii) was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State;
“(iii) includes the full name, date of birth, and place of birth of the applicant;
“(iv) lists the full names of one or both of the parents of the applicant;
“(v) has the signature of an individual who is authorized to sign birth certificates on behalf of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;
“(vi) includes the date that the certificate was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State; and
“(vii) has the seal of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government that issued the birth certificate.
“(B) An extract from a United States hospital Record of Birth created at the time of the applicant’s birth which indicates that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.
“(C) A final adoption decree showing the applicant’s name and that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.
“(D) A Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a citizen of the United States or a certification of the applicant’s Report of Birth of a United States citizen issued by the Secretary of State.
“(E) A Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of Citizenship issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security or any other document or method of proof of United States citizenship issued by the Federal government pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
“(F) An American Indian Card issued by the Department of Homeland Security with the classification ‘KIC’.”.
A person can still register on election day, too, if a state allows it and the person provides the documentation.
Plus, there’s also this, which Schumer and the rest of the left seem to leave out:
“(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to any relevant guidance adopted by the Election Assistance Commission, each State shall establish a process under which an applicant who cannot provide documentary proof of United States citizenship under paragraph (1) may, if the applicant signs an attestation under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and eligible to vote in elections for Federal office, submit such other evidence to the appropriate State or local official demonstrating that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and such official shall make a determination as to whether the applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in the State.
“(ii) AFFIDAVIT REQUIREMENT.—If a State or local official makes a determination under clause (i) that an applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in the State, such determination shall be accompanied by an affidavit developed under clause (iii) signed by the official swearing or affirming the applicant sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote.
Requiring ID and proof of citizenship in order to vote is a popular proposal:
Despite the ongoing divide between elected Republicans and Democrats over requiring photo I.D. to vote, a whopping 86% of Americans support it.
The poll comes just days from the presidential election with voting underway across the country.
Support varied by political party, with 98% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 84% of Independents supporting requiring photo I.D. to vote.
Another 83% of Americans support “requiring people who are registering to vote for the first time to provide proof of citizenship.” By party, 96% of Republicans, 66% of Democrats and 84% of Independents agree.
This is a very high level of support indeed.
If you listen to the left, “millions” couldn’t comply even though they are citizens:
I read most but not all of the following book:
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy Paperback – July 21, 2008
by John Fund (Author)
In it, he relates details of a court case (or cases) one of which was in Ohio, I believe. Voter ID requirements prevailed in the case I’m recalling. The opposing side trotted out these same disenfranchisement arguments that neo mentions. Amusingly, the judge responded by saying, “Produce some of these people that might be deprived of their voting rights, and we will question them.”
Oh no! Now the lefties will have to deal in facts, not hyperbole. Every single one of these hypothetically disenfranchised people that the plaintiffs produced could in fact get their voter registration rather trivially.
Washington state went with what they call an enhanced drivers license– which differs from Real ID in that it requires a certified copy of your birth certificate to be presented at the driver’s licensing office.
Real ID only requires that you prove legal residency.
I appreciate the list which specifies “documentary proof” of citizenship.
More than a driver’s license *unless* it is one of the new Real ID licenses. Which my wife and I have so we can travel by air.
Schumertime, and the lyin’ is easy…
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Meanwhile, in the Ever-Diminishing Apple, the author of this New York Post editorial does not, rather amazingly, seem to understand that “success”, for Madmani, is NYC’s destruction…
“Mayor Mamdani is failing at his core job: keeping NYC functioning”—
https://nypost.com/2026/02/02/opinion/mamdanis-failing-at-his-core-job-keeping-nyc-functioning/
Rick67, did you have to provide a certified birth certificate when you got your Real ID driver’s license?
There’s a word for what Schumer’s got, and I’m trying to remember it…oh yeah: chutzpah.
I was an international observer in the 2017 Liberian elections. Paper ballots, voting-specific photo ID issued only after the Liberian proved citizenship (I don’t know the mechanism used for proving that), in-person voting over a 2 day voting period, inked finger after voting. The election went off with very few hitches, none a surprise in such a poor, post-conflict, 3rd-world country.
The people’s civic pride during and after the election was palpable.
I’ve had to prove I was a US citizen to work as a contractor employee for the US Dept. of Energy since the late 1990s. Two forms of ID, which involved getting a certified copy of my birth cert. from Alaska (record of live birth). And of course I have to do it every time the contract changes hands.
Somehow Jim Crow wasn’t what occurred to me.
But mail in voting (no ID just a utility bill) or by blessing from the DMV, now that’s an inalienable right.
Vile.
It would seem to be common sense election laws to require state issued drivers licences to include place of birth. That data would be on the documents required to obtain a drivers licence so its shouldn’t be that big a deal.
And of course I had already passed through the lower level security clearance process (not a Q clearance) in the late 1980s, background check, interview process, when I first started working on the US Dept of Energy site (they were still in the Pu production business at that time). But did the Feds remember or recognize that (same Employee number in the records)?
Nooooo. Not at all.
Gosh, why would anyone oppose such “common sense” rules for establishing citizenship for the purpose of registering to vote? Why, to cheat, of course.
If the bleeding hearts think there are millions of Americans who can’t vote because they don’t have proper ID, instead of making it so they can vote without ID, why don’t they help those people get ID so they can vote AND cash checks AND board airplanes AND buy liquor?
bof:
That would require the lefty NGOs to do something not essential to their goal, revolution, aka “fundamental transformation.”
I had to provide a birth certificate with seal, plus marriage license with seal, to get my Real ID driver’s license.
Sure would be nice if going through all that had resulted in my Real ID contain a verification that I am a citizen—since I proved all that to get it.
Tangentially, it’s nice to see recognition of tribal documents.
This should be music to Madmani’s ears:
“…NYC Healthcare Fund Is Out Of Cash”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/waste-day-nyc-healthcare-fund-out-cash
As the latest beastly, Cloward-Piven incarnation slouches towards Gotham to give birth…(to his grand ambition).
File under: Live by the optics; die by
the opticsreality…Telemachus on February 3, 2026 at 6:10 pm said:
“The people’s civic pride during and after the election was palpable.”
Maybe there was an “upper” drug dissolved in the purple ink, and it was absorbed through the skin?
We should get a supply of that and use it here!!
AppleBetty on February 3, 2026 at 9:58 pm:
“Tangentially, it’s nice to see recognition of tribal documents.”
Well, there are two sides to that situation.
The indigenous residents that Columbus or the Pilgrims or the other Spanish met upon arrival on these shores did not demand these new arrivals get visas before setting foot on shore. A very severe administrative shortcoming!
Nor did Columbus or the Pilgrims or other Spanish demand documentation from those indigenous folks establishing their prior claim to the land upon which they were first found. And of course that was to purposefully avoid any such administrative unpleasantness as they proceeded to reside and farm and conquer said lands!
All to the good to now have tribal documentation of births on reservations within a sovereign “Indian” nation and jurisdiction. Might have been a mess before that capability was formalized?
We’ve probably all seen this Ami Horowitz video on how black people see voter ID, and how whites think of black people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
They don’t even pretend they don’t want vote fraud anymore.
Jimmy,
I hadn’t seen that video, but it should be sent to all the D congress critters.
Reform California’s voter id initiative is headed for the 2026 CA ballot. It has a good chance of passing. Although the Democrats have a huge edge in voter registration, the voters tend to be conservative on ballot initiatives. Consider donating to.Reform California
https://www.reformcalifornia.org/news/ca-voter-id-initiative-surpasses-1-million-signatures—headed-for-november-2026-ballot
Whitebread Chuck Schumer informs us that Voter ID is <i.“nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0.”
It turns out that 76% of blacks support Voter ID. So, Whitebread Chuck Schumer informs us that 76% of blacks support “Jim Crow 2.0.”
Like another commenter wrote, Schumer epitomizes chutzpah.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/02/03/cnns_enten_83_favor_voter_id_its_not_controversial.html
Schmuer lies. He knows he lies. Everybody knows he lies. But a certain cohort is required to pretend to believe the lies and thus condemn those who don’t as “racist”. The mechanism is well-oiled.
Makes no difference on either side.
Probably needless to say, but…
CALIFORNIA—and WEF/WTF** DREAMING (but I repeat myself)…
“Netherlands To Tax Unrealized Gains: EU Wealth Grab And Global Implications”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/netherlands-tax-unrealized-gains-eu-wealth-grab-and-global-implications
** Canada and “Biden”, too, etc….
+ Chilling Bonus (anti-bonus?)
“…The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-goes-around-eus-extralegal-sanctions-regime
(With special shout-out to Canada for first launching—and therefore alerting us to—this outrageous wave of the future… i.e., unless the monsters can be stopped…but even then…)