U.S. Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX): “Federal law prohibits [and] limits the ability of states to be able to check and ensure citizenship.” PHOTO: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

House Dems are dead set against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to be voted on next week – which would require NY election officials to require citizenship proof from voter registration applicants.

By Hannah Knudsen | Breitbart News

There is “repeated evidence” of non-citizens voting, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

“Let me just say this about the overall state of the election issue,” Roy began, explaining that “we’ve got repeated evidence of those who are here illegally — or, or whether they’re here legally — but non-citizens voting.”

“We’ve got studies demonstrating that. We’ve got evidence that it may have tipped the election for Al Franken and his election back in Minnesota.

“Objective studies have shown…Virginia tossing out 1,500 registered voters just last year. I can go through a laundry list.

“We’ve got local jurisdictions — Oakland, San Francisco, our nation’s capital in Washington, DC, and New York City — who are registering voters specifically for their state and local elections, but we know that they don’t work hard to make sure they’re not voting in federal elections,” he said, noting that “federal law prohibits [and] limits the ability of states to be able to check and ensure citizenship, so much so that the state of Arizona has to run two systems — one for their state local elections and one for their federal elections.”

“They’re literally bifurcated because they want to ensure citizenship for their state and local elections, but they’re not allowed to for federal elections. Therefore, we need to fix the problem,” he said.

Further, Roy said, because of the Motor Voter Act — the National Voter Registration Act — passed in the 1990s, the courts have interpreted federal laws to limit the state’s ability to “determine and collect the information necessary for determining and checking citizenship.”

Essentially, Roy said the U.S. has set up a system that requires federal agencies to push out the forms, encouraging individuals to register to vote. And while they ask one to identify if they are a citizen, and while federal law requires one to be a citizen to vote in federal elections, the congressman said there is nothing there to actually check citizenship.

The SAVE Act would help address these issues and correct what Roy described as the “glitch,” making it so every state would require anyone applying to register to vote to prove their citizenship.

“By doing that, though, it is correcting the glitch. It also goes through and it addresses some of the issues that have been complicated. There are states, for example, like North Dakota, which does not have voter registration at all, okay? So they can just show up to vote and don’t have registration…

“They have their own rules there about what you have to present in order just to vote. And that’s obviously a less populated state than, say, California or Texas or New York or Florida. But, so, we adapt and try to adjust to help with those kinds of situations. But, overall, the purpose of the bill is exactly as you just described, pretty simple,” Roy said. This is a bipartisan issue with massive support.

“Massive bipartisan support that only citizens should vote. And, so, I think this is the kind of Achilles’ heel, if you will, for Democrats, right?

“We just had a vote in Washington that would end Washington, DC’s, registration of non-citizens for their elections,” he said, explaining that they actually got 52 Democrats to support it. However, 143 Democrats opposed it.

“I believe it was unanimous Republican support. That gives you a rough idea,” he said, adding that they tried to pass a bill “that would make sure that it was clear that our congressional seats and allocations were based on citizenship, and that was unanimously opposed by Democrats.”

“So you see the fault line politically here. And this is why this issue matters so much, on the top of Biden dumping in five million people into our country, plus two million got-aways, you know, tens of thousands every day, additionally, coming in,” he added. ##