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Mike Lee: “Currently there are a whole lot of states and they tend to…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 20th

Published | Video Starts at 11:08

… undertake regular reviews of state voter registration files just to make sure that people who are registered to vote are in fact United States citizens. Why is that necessary? Well, Currently there are a whole lot of states and they tend to be states that might colloquially be described as blue, meaning that they're run by Democratic governors and or have Democratic dominated state legislatures that are refusing to cooperate, to coordinate to share data with the Department of Homeland Security. and the entities within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for maintaining the SAVE database, an already existing database designed to help identify issues like this, like non citizens who may have crept into voter registration files and get rid of them. (11:08–11:29)

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Asserts that many Democratic-led states refuse to share data with the Department of Homeland Security.

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