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Mike Lee: “There's currently no mechanism to verify the citizenship…”

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

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 18th

Published | Video Starts at 22:03

… being counted in federal elections, or how many illegal votes cast by noncitizens might be cast in any future federal election, including the midterm congressional elections taking place this November. There's currently no mechanism to verify the citizenship status of those registered to vote. And that's what this legislation was designed to provide to fill this gap left quite inadvisably and unnecessarily by the Supreme Court of the United states in Arizona vs Intertribal Council of Arizona. (22:03–22:10)

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Asserts that there is no current system to verify voter citizenship status.

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