Letters to the Editor | April 1, 2026

The Editorial Board’s recent attack on the SAVE America Act is long on hysteria and short on facts.

The SAVE America Act does one thing: ensure only American citizens cast ballots in elections by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter ID at the ballot box.

The American people support these steps. The Pew Research Center found 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats support voter ID. Only 22% of Americans oppose requiring proof of citizenship to register.

Apparently, the Editorial Board cannot grasp what most Americans understand: Voter ID and citizenship requirements are common sense. If Pennsylvanians must show ID to buy a beer or board a plane, shouldn’t they show ID to vote for the commander in chief?

The Editorial Board counters with baseless claims. Here are the facts.

First: The bill will not “disenfranchise 21 million eligible voters.” It creates alternate pathways for citizens who don’t have a passport or birth certificate to prove citizenship when registering to vote.

Second: The bill directs states to accommodate married women who change their name by allowing applicants to sign sworn statements, submit supporting evidence, and have an election official certify their citizenship.

Third: Proof of citizenship is required only at registration, not for voting. Only a photo ID — a driver’s license, state ID, military ID, or passport — is required to vote.

Finally: This bill is not “a harmful solution in search of a problem.” Look at Mahady Sacko, an illegal immigrant who voted illegally in seven federal elections in Pennsylvania, the Chinese national charged in Michigan, or the British national charged in Texas.

I lost my first statewide election in 2022 by 950 votes — 14 votes per county. Every vote matters. Our elections must be beyond reproach.

We agree on one thing: Voting is a “fundamental right.” But it’s a right reserved for citizens, and citizens alone. The SAVE America Act defends that principle.

Dave McCormick, U.S. senator for Pennsylvania

So instead of stopping this illegal war, the Pentagon is now planning to send ground troops into Iran, some of whom will certainly — and needlessly — die. This war is illegal, immoral, and totally unnecessary. Most Americans are totally opposed to it. Did the president and his cabinet not see the millions of people demonstrating Saturday against this administration and its hideous agenda of war, racism, discrimination, cruelty?

Are they listening? Do they care? The blood of the American service members and innocent civilians is on their hands. I am sure they must know history. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan — wars that could not be won and should never have been entered into. And while we are destroying other countries instead of working tirelessly for world peace, new terrorists will be created. Young people and children from the Middle East who have lost their families and their homes will be the next radicals to chant “death to America.” This administration is creating a world that is not safer, but much more dangerous.

It is long past time for Congress to step in and stop this war.

Kathleen Clements, Philadelphia

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