WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, took to the Senate floor to slam Republicans for trying to ram through the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to make it harder and more expensive for Americans to register to vote and cast their ballots.
Trump and Republicans' SAVE America Act would purge American citizens from the voter rolls, kill voter registration by mail and online, reject common IDs used to register to vote-often making Americans pay for new IDs and therefore making it more expensive to vote, force Americans to register to vote in person, and penalize married women who have cha...