Some states are pushing to advance President Donald Trump’s voting restrictions agenda, even as Republicans in Congress have stalled in delivering on his request ahead of the midterms.
At least 15 different states have passed legislation tightening ballot access since the start of the second Trump administration. They range from Louisiana, where the governor signed a bill in May that will mandate annual checks of voter registration rolls against the administration’s revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, to a law passed in Florida that will require residents to use an updated state ID with a citizenship marker to vote by 2027.
South Dakota passed the South Dakota SAVE Act this year as an emergency measure that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote before the primaries. Republicans in the state were motivated to pass it after they found nearly 300 noncitizens on its voter rolls a year and a half ago.