SAVE America Act addresses a nonexistent problem in US voting system [letter] - Lancaster Online

As a lifelong Republican voter, I am deeply concerned about election integrity and the proposed SAVE America Act.

It is already a federal crime for noncitizens to vote. States that investigate find instances of noncitizen voting to be virtually nonexistent.

The conservative Heritage Foundation database of election crimes lists 24 proven instances of noncitizens voting from 2003 to 2023.

So, as I see it, the SAVE America Act is basically consuming legislative time to solve a nonexistent problem — and complicating the voting process!

The fix is simple. Speak the truth to the American people. The 2016 Iowa primary was not stolen by Ted Cruz, nor was the 2020 election stolen by the “deep state.” Donald Trump lost. Whenever he loses, he claims fraud — he lies.

Our election system is not perfect but it is truly amazing. It includes more than 9,000 separate voting jurisdictions. Election law is overseen at the state level and administered by bipartisan teams at the local level. There are multiple ways to audit ballots, whether they are mail-in, paper or electronic. And the public can watch.

The problem is not the voting system; it is a president who routinely sows seeds of distrust in the system and in the hardworking neighbors and citizens we meet running our polling stations each election.

He did this throughout 2020. He is doing it again, claiming in the recent State of the Union address, “Cheating is rampant in our elections,” and “the only way they (Democrats) can get elected is to cheat.”

Trump’s call for elections to be nationalized should terrify us. Yet Republican legislators remain silent about Trump’s lies while boasting about how the SAVE America Act would secure our elections. No wonder their approval ratings are so low.

Randy Witmer

Warwick Township