The American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act, unveiled by five Republican members of the Committee on House Administration (CHA) at a press conference near Atlanta, seeks to provide states with the necessary tools to protect the integrity of their elections and restore voter confidence.
The bill includes several provisions, such as a requirement for a photo ID to cast a federal election ballot, barring non-citizens from voting, annual maintenance of voter rolls, and preventing the mailing of unsolicited ballots to rolls that have not been maintained.
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Committee chairman Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., stated that the ACE Act will make it "easy to vote and hard to cheat" and will grant states access to federal resources to ensure simple tasks like removing deceased voters from the rolls. He referred to the bill as "commonsense legislation" and "a rational approach that Americans can get behind."
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Joining Steil at the press conference were Reps. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., Laurel Lee, R-Fla., and Mike Carey, R-Ohio. Each representative emphasized the importance of the bill and highlighted the measures their own states had taken to combat voter fraud.
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Loudermilk, who represents the district that includes Marietta, Georgia, mentioned that the bill incentivizes other states to pass similar voting laws to Georgia's S.B. 202, which faced criticism from Democrats, who labeled it as "racist," "voter-suppression," "Jim Crow 2.0," and "a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie."
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The committee chose Georgia as the location for the bill's roll-out due to the significant backlash the state faced after passing its voting law. The backlash resulted in the MLB moving the All-Star game from Atlanta, causing an estimated loss of over $100 million to the local economy.
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When asked about potential pushback from Democrats, Steil acknowledged that the left would attack the legislation. He emphasized the importance of holding hearings in Georgia and across the country to allow people to review the legislation and counter any misleading information from the left.
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Loudermilk highlighted a hypothetical scenario mentioned by Steil, where under current laws in Washington, D.C., any person, including a Russian national working at the Russian embassy, who spends 30 days in the U.S. would be eligible to vote in the city's mayoral elections or even run for mayor.
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Despite the bill's potential passage in the House of Representatives, it is unlikely to advance through the Democratic-controlled Senate or be signed into law by President Biden.
The ACE Act is a response to the Democrats' own elections bill, H.R. 1, or the For the People Act, which passed the House in March 2021 but failed to gain traction in the Senate due to a lack of unanimous Democratic support.
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