SAVE America Act Fearmongering vs. Reality: Woman Replaced 3 Key Documents in 5 Days for $19
“Marriage License: Went to the ‘vital docs’ site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days – total cost, $5.”
Desperate to block the SAVE America Act — a measure that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering and present photo ID at the ballot box — Democrats have increasingly turned to fearmongering.
Their arguments tend to involve some variation of the following: most Americans, they claim, don’t have ready access to documents like a birth certificate; voters would be forced to obtain a passport — an expensive and time-consuming process that many cannot afford; and the burden would fall especially hard on married women whose names have changed, requiring additional paperwork such as marriage licenses.
On Tuesday morning’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, Joe Scarborough argued that because his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, can’t find her original birth certificate, she would be kicked off the voter rolls under the SAVE Act. I can’t help but wonder if Brzezinski has a passport.
WATCH🚨: Joe Scarborough just claimed that because Mika can’t locate her “original birth certificate,” the SAVE Act would kick her off the voter rolls.
This is false.
The SAVE Act requires documentary proof of citizenship to register or update voter registration — not to stay… pic.twitter.com/O8rAGtThpZ
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) March 24, 2026
In the X post below, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who introduced this legislation, called out his Senate colleague, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who called the measure a “modern-day poll tax.”
1. This is a lie
2. Read the damn bill
3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true
4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying? pic.twitter.com/TmskCT7Ywl
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 24, 2026
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who inexplicably still calls herself a Republican, also opposes the SAVE Act. She claims that the remoteness of much of her state would make the requirement especially onerous, forcing residents to travel great distances, miss work, and even arrange childcare simply to obtain the necessary documents.
Murkowski said today that under the SAVE Act, a couple in remote part of Alaska would have to take flight to Anchorage at a cost of $2,000, bring/fund/secure documents, spend a day off work, maybe leave kids at home: ie, a huge burden.
She also strongly opposes objects to…
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 24, 2026
Moreover, Democrats insist the law is unnecessary, maintaining that noncitizens do not vote in federal elections. When presented with evidence to the contrary, they dismiss such cases as exceedingly rare. And they quickly pivot to a broader question: why focus on this issue at all, they ask, instead of addressing concerns like affordability that weigh more heavily on American families?
The managing editor of Twitchy, who posts on X under the handle @PolitiBunny, wasn’t buying the hype. She set out to test whether obtaining copies of her birth certificate, social security card, and marriage license was truly as difficult and costly as Democrats claim.
In the post below, she breaks down how she obtained the documents and how little it cost.
1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day – total cost, $14.
2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I ‘won’t likely be asked for it.’ I went ahead and got it – took five business days to arrive – total cost, $0.
3. Marriage License: Went to the ‘vital docs’ site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days – total cost, $5.
She spent $19 and received “all three certified/legal documents” within five business days. She notes that if she currently lived in the town where she was born or married, “it would have been a day. Tops.”
She concludes, “Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.”
For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.
Here's how it went:
1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health…
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) March 23, 2026
Citizenship verification, voter ID requirements, and cleaning up voter registration rolls should not be controversial. Every American has a stake in ensuring that only eligible citizens cast ballots. Each time a non-citizen votes, a lawful citizen is disenfranchised.
Clearly there is only one reason for the fierce opposition to this simple bill: it would make cheating in elections far more difficult.
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dems: are people cant get ids
retract any and allll welfare government tax funding to anyone wha cant prove their id
betting they will find the id’s
and then stop this mail-in-voting as a norm
correction:
our
Actually, you are right on both counts. At least some Democrats ARE people who can’t get IDs.
Then they shouldn’t be voting
Right. If it’s too hard to get ID to vote then it should be easy to purge welfare programs of people who can’t prove who they are. I needed a copy of my birth certificate last year so I called the town clerk where I was born, ordered one online and got it in a week or so. Pretty simple stuff. If you can figure out how to defraud the system for EBT, disability, Section 8 housing etc I’m pretty sure you can figure out how to get ID like this.
NINTEEN DOLLARS?!? NINTEEN DOLLARS?!?
Where is a non-white non-male non-heterosexual going to find $19 to obtain documents!
This bill is racist, sexist, heteronormative, white-supremacist, and a further example of the white male patriarchy!!!
/where did I put that purple hair dye? Oh! And, I’m late for my piercing appointment…
It’s kind of strange. First Democrats insult black people telling them they are too stupid to vote for their own good if they don’t vote for them and now they are telling women they are too stupid to know how to get ID to prove who they are to vote.
The sad part? Both groups believe it.
They’ve been pushing the “Republican women are too dumb to vote for themselves and have to vote for who their husband says” bit for a couple of election cycles now. Oy.
A couple of election cycles? I believe it’s been over four decades.
Recently had to gather documents for my wife to obtain a Real ID and a new passport.
Same requirements: birth certificate (Mika might have a point though. I think she was hatched), a marriage license to document her change of name.
Exceptionally easy. People happy to help. Didn’t cost more than $20.
Of course, my IQ is (debatably) above 100.
Which begs the question: do we want stupid people voting?
The average IQ is 100. The good news is half the population has an IQ above 100. The bad news is half the population has an IQ below 100. Stupid people vote. A lot of them vote.
And nearly all of the stupids vote democrat.
If you’re too dumb to get the documents (with a little help for navigating bureaucracy) then, no, you shouldn’t be voting.
One slight problem: Women who have been married more than once and have changed their last name each time will have a problem because the maiden name on their marriage certificate will not match their last name on their birth certificate. They might have to collect all of their marriage certificates. Doable, but annoying.
That’s the price you pay for not keeping important documentation in a safe place.
Not true. Their maiden name does not change, the very definition of it is a woman’s surname (last name) at birth, before she takes her spouse’s name upon marriage
She doesn’t change her maiden name when she remarries she just changes from one married surname to the next.
My reply was to gibbie and not sanddog
Exactly how a couple’s names change at marriage can vary depending on when the marriage occurred and the state laws in effect. In the 1980s I married a woman whose mother had legally changed her name after birth from her father’s last name to her own (they were unmarried at the time of her birth, and split up shortly after), *and* she had been previously married. At the time we were married, IIRC, she could keep her existing legal last name or the marriage license in the state of Iowa could legally change her last name to mine or we could both take a compound of our last names but she could not retain her last name and add mine separately. She had to petition for a legal name change to do that and supply documentation of her birth name, name change, and prior marriage and divorce. This is admittedly an extreme example but tracking such multiple name changes would be at least time consuming though it would mostly require getting duplicates of the necessary documents.
They should already have gotten them. SS requires name change form be submitted ASAP to get an updated SS card and driver’s license also has to be updated with a name change, requiring the same documentation. Our state only give you 60 days! Most women don’t find this complicated. Especially married women, because we are the ones who keep track of all of those papers,
Often for the whole family. Not complicated. If newly married ..still has to be done. Order the birth certificate online if necessary. As I said, they have to have them for most official business. We already know this.
Meh, if they could navigate a divorce or more than one they can figure it out. Probably a cottage industry opportunity to assist the less capable for some entrepreneur.
Same lawyer who helped them in the divorce could probably gather the documents for them for a minor fee.
Yep. Or a family member or other trusted person or even….the internet.
So, what? Because they made bad choices were supposed to have dishonest elections?
Bad attitude.
Yeah, nope! Wife and I got married 2 years ago. She was divorced and had kept her ex’s last name because of the pain in the keister changing everything but her marriage certificate had her maiden name on it matching her birth certificate. She did have to provide a copy of her divorce paper to prove she was no longer married but she had that too. The entire “women who are/have been married can’t prove who they are so can’t vote” is retarded.
As gibbie said, it might be annoying but it’s very much obtainable.
Your maiden name IS the name on your birth certificate, not any of the names you may have acquired through marriage.
Murkowski said today that under the SAVE Act, a couple in remote part of Alaska would have to take flight to Anchorage at a cost of $2,000, bring/fund/secure documents, spend a day off work, maybe leave kids at home: ie, a huge burden.
why would they have to fly in?
just mail -it-in like they do their votes
unless of course its better to do this in person and not have your important mail-in docs in the hands of someone you might not trust
ok try it this way
Murkowski said today that under the SAVE Act, a couple in remote part of Alaska would have to take flight to Anchorage at a cost of 2,000, bring/fund/secure documents, spend a day off work, maybe leave kids at home: ie, a huge burden.
why would they have to fly in?
just mail -it-in like they do their votes
unless of course its better to do this in person and not have your important mail-in docs in the hands of someone you might not trust
It’s total BS
I in Hawaii, needed my sisters birth certificate. One with a seal. She was born in California because my father was in the military. California had a sealed certificate in my hands within 2 weeks. They said they would be glad to expedite for $25 which included enhanced mailing.
Murkowski is a POS.
Communist POS.
Murky’s story is BS. You can get vital records online. She only mentions the most difficult in-person option. Alaska’s Vital Records offices are in Juneau and Anchorage. Passports are easy to obtain if you don’t need them today. Mine have never taken more than two weeks to obtain or renew.
I’m confused.
To fly, you need a Real ID. No idea why because your identity doesn’t really matter if the TSA does its job. Also, the Biden administration literally sent illegal aliens on planes with copies of their arrest warrants as ID.
To vote, where your identity and address matter to ensure you’re both voting in the right place and only voting one time, along with confirming who you are: NO ID EVER!!!11111!
Hair-splitting gets you nowhere.
The “non-citizens don’t vote” argument is a red herring. The real problem with not verifying voter ID is the deluge of bogus ballots from fake registrants. Stop refuting the red herring and instead point out the real reason why Dems don’t like voter ID – it prevents them from mass manufacturing phony voter registrations so they can submit ballots from voters who simply don’t exist.
Or the dead and/or those who’ve moved but neither of which got removed from the voter registration rolls.
I contend we should require a zeroing out, total purge of the existing voter registration lists. Have everyone register in their birth month for 12 months then open up to 1st come,.1st served. Require an in person registration every ten years. Create national database of SSA #, registration in every State and input SSA death data, County level death data, Felony convictions, USPS change of address, Jury service data ‘excuse me from jury I ain’t a Citizen or don’t reside at the address’. Add a.basic check at time of.registration on the physical address to determine if more info is needed; 12 folks claiming one physical address (apartments have unit #) is it a.commercial address,.a.vacant lot, a UPS store? Then mandatory Federal prosecution of attempt to unlawfully register, successful fraudulent registration and attempt to cast bad ballot off a bad registration. Make it harsh 5-15 years each offense.
More achievable, probationally remove everyone who doesn’t have a state ID or DL and force re-registration for those who do have those documents at the next time they have to renew their license. It’s just Motor Voter, right? Except you require them to prove it. The only problem I see there is that voter registration is very local, while DMV is state-level.
We hire temporary workers for census we could do the same for this. The ONLY way to be remotely close to accurate is to entirely purge/zero out the voter registration lists, then ruthlessly apply new strict standards. Hand the County voter registration folks, usually under the County Clerk, some Federal funds to plus up their staffing to accommodate the initial two year push.
This immediately removes the dead, those who moved and the fraudulent. Clearing out the entire universe of ‘bad/improper/fraudulent’ registrations is the only way to get list maintenance done. This overcomes all the foot dragging and intransigence of State/local election officials. This is a situation of a turd in the punch bowl. Gotta empty the bowl, wash and disinfect it before using it again.
The illegals registering is part of those bogus ballots. The more names on the voter rolls, the more bogus ballots can be manufactured/mailed out. Illegals don’t have to vote to be the problem, as you point out – they just have to put a bunch of names on the rolls.
Which is one reason that voter roll scrubbing is also part of the SAVE Act. If you can’t find and verify people, then they get booted. Then they will have to prove who they are and that they are legitimate to re-register.
Well. She is a raving idiot.
Another little fun fact. To get a real ID you have to prove lawfull status. Read that how you want to but part of that is citizenship. It would be a simple policy change to put citizenship on the real ID and problem is solved
I’ll sign onto your idea to use State issued Star ID as proof of Citizenship BUT only if where even ONE Star ID in a State goes out the door to someone who shouldn’t have gotten it then EVERY Star ID issued by that State is immediately revoked without any whining or hissy fits. Everybody gotta reapply In Person with all their source documents and if that was right before an election and practically no one in that State would be able to vote as a result…tough cookies. Same for some poor SOB out of town and can’t fly or rent a car to get home, or otherwise use it to prove their identity for any purpose.
Of course, it depends on where you need to get the documents from. Some three years ago I had to obtain a replacement birth certificate so I could get a RealID driver’s license. Unfortunately, I was born in New York City. The b/c cost me $72 and took five months – five months! – to make it to San Antonio, TX. My boss had to accompany me to her bank so I could cash three paychecks after my d/l expired…
On the other hand, I moved some sixteen months ago and had to replace/update my driver’s license, voter registration, renter’s insurance, car insurance, electric account, cable service and Social Security records. Three items were accomplished online, one by voice phone and three by an office drop-in visit. Total time, about an hour. Total cost, $23.
Anybody who says they can’t get sufficient ID to comply with voter identification laws is a damn liar – or an illegal alien.
When you are so challenged that you firmly believe that Biden was “the best he’s ever been,” and publicly defend it, ordinary paperwork must seem hard.
Indeed
It’s a darn good thing those same people don’t have to pay taxes.
I just got a replacement birth certificate because I had to get a passport again and my old one it expired. The Franklin County Department of Health in Columbus Ohio got a copy of that into my hands in 2 days. I really didn’t need it that fast and I kind of wish I had noticed that they defaulted to second day air. So the $25 see that the County Health Department charged turned into $55 after the shipping. Still, it wasn’t hard, maybe 10 minutes on the website and two days later I had a hard copy of my birth certificate in my hand.
But what’s the point of these Democrats? All their voters have passports and driver’s licenses. It’s the village idiots with no papers, no education, and no internet access who vote for MAGA.
“All their voters have passports and driver’s licenses.”
You left out death certificates.
Unfortunately, not everyone has it.
The only reason for the Democrats’ hysteria is their voters, who fed their IDs to the fish in the Rio Grande. And their birth certificates are found on other continents. For example, in Beijing, Caracas, or Mogadishu.
Murkowski is a liar and should not be in Congress. A simple search gave me this about getting a birth certificate in Alaska.
“Yes, you can obtain a birth certificate by mail in Alaska from the Alaska Health Analytics & Vital Records Section. Mail-in requests generally take 4–6 weeks to process, while orders through authorized services like VitalChek can be faster. The cost is $30 per copy.”
4–6 weeks to process
One of the other problems is some states allow voter registration right up until the election now. And if that’s the case, and you just suddenly wanted to vote, that 4-6 weeks is prohibitive.
Of course, 1) that is why they instituted probationary voting (I can’t remember the other word they use), and 2) that is why you shouldn’t wait until the last minute. But planning ahead is also something people can’t seem to do nowadays.
Provisional.
VitalChek is awesome. I got my birth cert through them. No hassle, no problems, and I found out I was actually born about three blocks away from where I live now.
a measure that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering and present photo ID at the ballot box
Thank you for stating that correctly. Way too many folks are speaking as if you have to bring your birth certificate to the polling station.
I’d be in favor of bringing a utility bill to compare address with that on the ID and the address submitted for registration. Some people downplay the physical address as of minor importance but that’s Cray Cray. The physical address determines what district you live in and what offices you should be casting a ballot for. Used properly the physical address can be a good check for potential fraud.
STOP POSTING THIS SHIT!!!!!!
(If they’re so stupid as to believe their propaganda, we definitely
DON’T WANT THEM VOTING!!! 🙂
🙂
God forbid a citizen should get annoyed trying to obtain ID. Yup, that’s what they’re saying. America has been thoroughly dumbed down.
I think many states are freaking out as this will point out just how much they gouge people with fees. In NYS just to get a death certificate is costly. NYS state charges a huge fee online plus processing fees nearly double the local cost and the county level alone was $30 in person for one document. They capitalize on needed documents with bigger fees. I would argue that this already created a poll tax without passage of this law!
It only took we a couple weeks to birth certificates for my deceased Grandfather, and learned his first name was Edward which was news to me and my cousins. Also just as easy to get birth certificates for my deceased parents. So much BS from the Democrats. As for poll tax it costs me hundreds to buy a firearm and get a concealed carry license. All which requires ID and background checks.
Forgot to mention my former blue state waited until the very last minute to institute RealID. They suggested getting a passport instead. When they implemented RealID driver’s licenses they charge extra and started begging everyone get one.
“birth certificates for my deceased Grandfather” … “birth certificates for my deceased parents”
Shut up — you’re giving the Democrats ideas!
It’s a poll tax on women who changed their name after marrying. Plain and simple.
“Woman Replaced 3 Key Documents in 5 Days for $19”
But did anyone test DEI women, trans women, and women whose lives matter?