Mike Lee demands action on SAVE Act after 30,000 noncitizens registered

Key Points:

• A Reuters report found that over 30,000 self-declared noncitizens have been mistakenly registered to vote across multiple U.S. states since 2000, attributed to software glitches and clerical errors rather than intentional fraud.
• Sen. Mike Lee criticized both Democrats and Republicans for resisting the SAVE America Act, which he says would help prevent noncitizen voter registration and fraud by requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID at the polls.
• The errors were identified in states including California, Illinois, Texas, and Virginia, but it remains unclear how many noncitizens actually voted, as state data is often tentative and subject to revision.
• Lee compared the ease of committing voter fraud to cheating a restaurant's all-you-can-eat deal without ID, arguing that voting should require similar verification measures to ensure election integrity.
• Don Palmer of the Heritage Foundation suggested improving citizenship verification through better cooperation with state driver's license agencies and enhancing REAL ID implementation as a bipartisan solution to voter registration issues.