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Why are the republicans having such trouble getting the votes for the SAVE act? It seems even the republican senate leadership is tampering with it. What is their specific objection?
Trump has successfully convinced his base that there is large-scale, partisan-asymmetric fraud in US elections such that clean elections would materially help Republicans. Republican senators know that this is not the case.
At a practical level, the SAVE Act does two things:
Random paperwork-driven disenfranchisement helps the party whose supporters are richer, better educated (because they are more likely to be able to fix paperwork issues) and more urban (because it is harder to run the kind of political operation that fixes paperwork issues for voters in rural areas). In the current year, that is the Democrats. That married women using their husbands' names are somewhat more likely to be disenfranchised by paperwork issues makes the partisan asymmetry worse.
So if the fraud isn't real, or the SAVE Act doesn't stop it, or the SAVE Act stops it in a partisan-symmetric way, then passing the SAVE Act will hurt Republicans. (Why don't Democrats support something like the SAVE Act if it helps them - same reason the Democrats don't do other things that would help them win elections but might get you called racist) So Republicans who might face tough elections want to stop it passing without being blamed by the MAGA base for stopping it passing.
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