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littlemissmartypants

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 07:33 AM Saturday

🔥"I read the Trump-backed "Save America Act" so you don't have to." Jennifer Cohn Here is my 8-point summary. [View all]

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Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read the Act because, if they had, they would sound the alarm about Point 1, below

By Jennifer Cohn, 3/13/26

I read the Trump-backed so-called “Save America Act” (SB 1383) because most of the media and most of our lawmakers apparently have not. It’s obvious that they haven’t read it because if they had, they would sound the alarm about Point 1, below.

The Save America Act:

1. States that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)“SAVE” voter purge program, which reportedly has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) whose databases were mishandled by DOGE per:

The SSA itself (in a recent court filing titled “Notice of Corrections to the Court Record”),
A whistleblower report by the SSA’s former Chief Data Officer, and
A new whistleblower report, which alleges that a former DOGE member claimed to have retained his SSA computer & credentials providing “God level” access to SSA systems.
(The Act mentions giving flagged voters “notice” and an “opportunity” to prove citizenship without specifying the form or length of time for the notice and while simultaneously making it very difficult to prove citizenship if flagged or purged. See also FN 1.)

In addition, the Act:
2. Imposes no penalty for erroneous purges, but subjects officials to citizen suits & potential prison time for registering a single voter without correct documentation — even if the voter is a citizen. (Note: The GOP has wrongly purged thousands of voters in past elections.

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About Jennifer Cohn
After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections, propaganda, & extremism.



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