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Kamala Harris Says SAVE Act Must Be Stopped Because ‘40% Of Americans’ Don’t Have Birth Certificates, Passports

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris suggested that the SAVE America Act is bad because it would require people to present basic documents to register to vote — which she claimed 40% of Americans do not have.

The failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee told left-wing podcaster Aaron Parnas in an interview published Wednesday that the GOP-backed election integrity bill — which the Senate is currently considering amid fierce Democratic opposition — would target the four in 10 Americans she claimed lack a birth certificate or passport. She added that it would disproportionally affect married women who change their surnames.

“You know what the SAVE Act would do? Require that people show a birth certificate or a passport to register to vote,” Harris said on the Wednesday episode of “The Parnas Perspective.” “I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me, but it’s something like 40% of Americans don’t have those documents.”

“Married women, if you changed your name and got married, it’s going to be difficult [as far as] what’s on your birth certificate, right? And what that’s going to do is complicate the ability of women to register to vote,” added Harris, who did not take her husband’s surname. “And so this is happening in real time to suppress and obstruct the ability of people to vote.”

WATCH:

I asked @KamalaHarris about the SAVE Act and efforts to undermine the 2026 election.

She tells me that the militarization of Minneapolis may have been “beta testing” for what the Administration will do in November to make it harder for Americans to vote. pic.twitter.com/rb3YfrOQnk

— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) February 25, 2026

“And then my concern, frankly, Aaron, is that, when we saw what happened in Minneapolis, I think we really need to understand that in addition to everything that was obvious about it, it might have been basically a demonstration and a beta testing of the militarizing of the streets of America to intimidate people against voting, and using federal officials to intimidate people to not vote,” Harris said.

The SAVE Act would require photo ID in order to vote nationwide — a policy that 83% of Americans, including 71% of Democrats, support according to an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey. It would also require a prospective voter to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to go to the polls.

President Donald Trump supports the bill. During a Feb. 15 CNN interview, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer labeled it “Jim Crow 2.0.”

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