The Democratic Party has vowed to vote against legislation to require voters to provide identification before casting a ballot despite actively using identification to vote in Congress and requiring attendees of their events to present identification when entering.
Republicans pointed out the Democrats double standard on identification after 213 Democrats voted against Rep. Chip Roy’s, R-Texas, SAVE America Act on Wednesday.
“Notable that 213 Democrats just used their congressional photo ID to vote NO on a voter ID bill,” Rep. Micheal Cloud, R-Texas, wrote on X.
House Rules require members to insert their identification card before voting on legislation, Cloud pointed out.
On Friday, the Republican National Committee released a video from a Feb. 7 Sen. John Ossoff’s, D-Ga., rally, where an attendee was asked multiple times by multiple event staffers to provide proper identification before entering the event.
In a statement shared with The Daily Signal, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., described the Democrats double standard on identification as “vehement” and “incoherent.”
“Leader Scalise noted that John Ossoff, Senator Ossoff, had his big event there. And, you know, he said that the SAVE Act is “A bad faith bill cynically intended to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters,” Johnson said.
Johnson also pointed out that the senator condemned the voter integrity legislation during an event, which required voter identification.
“That’s what Senator Ossoff said. But of course, at the event where he said that he required photo ID to attend,” Johnson added. “Democrats want to verify your identity to attend their campaign rallies, but not to participate in the elections they’re running in.”
Other Democrats, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have called the SAVE Act as “Jim. Crow 2.0,” and promised that it would be “dead on arrival” in the senate.
“Republicans bristle, the right-wing bristles, every time I say that the SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0,” Schumer said.
Ossoff and Schumer did not respond to The Daily Signals request for comment.
