Who’s Afraid of Citizen-Only Voting?
Michigan’s top Democrats oppose it because they wouldn't benefit
Citizens-only voting is an 80-20 issue in Michigan. The only people who oppose it are Michigan’s top Democrats, and the few voters who love them.
Once upon a time, Democrats could sprinkle some Black Lives Matter on the voter ID issue. They’d claim that black people could never figure out how to obtain the IDs they need to drive, buy alcohol, and send packages. And people would believe them.
Nobody buys it anymore, and fewer are willing to say it.
Besides, black people voted in too high a number for President Donald Trump, and illegal aliens are the new flavor of the month.
But the Democrats can’t come right out and say that. With blackwashing rendered inert, their best hope is pinkwash.
In 2024, Democrats put a woman, Kamala Harris, on the presidential ballot. Had Harris won, she would be the leader of the free world.
In 2026, Democrats are reduced to pretending that married women like Harris can’t figure out how to prove their citizenship. (If they are married, couldn’t they just ask their husbands?) Where have all the girlbosses gone?
Here’s how Michigan’s top Democrats justify their stand against common sense.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is Michigan’s chief election officer. Benson uses official state channels and fundraising channels to oppose citizens-only voting. She did this after at least 16 non-citizens voted illegally in the 2024 election.
On the state website, Benson’s office writes that the bill would jeopardize the voting rights of more than 2.2 million women in Michigan whose married names are not the same name on their birth certificate, potentially requiring them to purchase a passport to register to vote.
In a fundraising appeal, Benson claims the “sole purpose” of the Save America Act “is to make it harder to vote.”
This is true. The bill would make it harder for Chinese citizens, like Haoxiang Gao, who voted illegally in Ann Arbor in 2024, to vote, and have that vote count. Maybe even impossible. What Benson presents as a bug is actually a feature.
In 2020, Benson told election clerks to presume that absentee ballot signatures were valid, rather than verify them. Her mantra that year was to “Count Every Vote.”
Making it harder to vote, by demanding that all voters be citizens first, interferes with Benson’s election strategy.
Michigan’s Democrat delegation in Congress is singing the same tale of woe.
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who won her election by 19,000 votes in 2024, says that election integrity is just an electoral strategy for Trump—whose name will never appear on another ballot.
“We are only debating the so-called SAVE Act because of one fact,” Slotkin posted on X. “Donald Trump doesn't like to lose elections and his team wants to shield him from another embarrassing loss. That's it.”
“This isn’t about election security,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. “It’s about election takeover.”
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says the bill “would lead to voter suppression, making it more difficult for the military, senior citizens, those who get married and change their names, rural Americans, students, individuals with disabilities, and others to vote.”
The purpose of a system is what it does. Democrats oppose anything resembling a standard for voters, anything that would keep a non-citizen out of the voting booth.
They oppose the Save America Act for a reason: Because they plan to benefit from non-citizen voting.
