House GOP pushes SAVE Act for passport/birth-cert registration and nationwide voter ID

House Republicans released an amended SAVE America Act that would require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote and impose a nationwide photo ID to cast a ballot, dropping the earlier provision to prove citizenship at the polls. The citizenship-registration requirement could affect about 21.3 million voting-age Americans lacking ready access to those documents, and excluding college IDs would hit students who often vote Democratic. Supporters say the measure protects elections; critics call it a voter suppression effort. Prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.