Former Vice President Mike Pence is pushing the Senate to pass a nationwide voter ID law, telling Fox News Digital the SAVE Act is “truly an idea whose time has come.”
The SAVE Act, short for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, passed the Republican-controlled House in February mostly along party lines. It would require voters to show photo ID and proof of citizenship at the polls in all 50 states. The bill is now stalled in the Senate, where Republicans hold 53 seats but need 60 votes to clear the filibuster threshold.
“I’m urging every member of the Senate to set politics aside, cast a vote to restore public confidence in election integrity in this country,” Pence said.
Pence pointed to Indiana as a model. The state enacted voter ID requirements 15 years ago, a law that survived a Supreme Court challenge and became a template for other states. “We were one of the first states to adopt voter ID laws,” he noted. “It went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States and was upheld.”
Polls consistently show strong bipartisan support for voter ID requirements, with majorities across party lines backing the measure. Pence’s advocacy organization, Advancing American Freedom, has championed the bill since its introduction.
Pence disputed Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) framing that the Act is “Jim Crow 2.0.”
“I think requiring our voters to show photo ID at the ballot box or prove American citizenship is simply an idea whose time has come,” he said, adding that past election controversies during COVID, when states changed vote-counting rules mid-cycle, had eroded public confidence in the system.
