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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Registered voters who are flagged by DHS, which has a…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senator Gillibrand Holds The Floor to Oppose Trump's Voter Suppression Bill

Published | Video Starts at 03:11

The Save America act would also force states to submit voter data to the Department of Homeland Security under the guise of verifying voter citizenship status. But here's the catch. Registered voters who are flagged by DHS, which has a history of misidentifying U.S. citizens as ineligible to vote, would make them have to prove their citizenship. are removed from the voter rolls. That means that registered voters could be purged from the rolls, then face the additional burden of confirming their citizenship in person with an accurate passport or birth certificate. (03:11–03:26)

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Asserts that DHS has a history of misidentifying U.S. citizens as ineligible to vote.

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