Voter ID and Citizenship Rules

Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, the state’s chief elections officer, completed a review of Utah’s voter rolls looking for ineligible noncitizen voters and reported that investigators found zero noncitizens who had cast ballots. The finding undercuts national GOP claims of widespread noncitizen voting and arrives as Trump and congressional Republicans push the SAVE Act, which would impose federal proof‑of‑citizenship rules on voter registration. Election‑law experts online have noted that Utah’s clean audit aligns with prior studies showing confirmed noncitizen voting is extremely rare and usually the result of clerical errors, not organized fraud. The result will likely be cited by voting‑rights advocates and some state Republicans who argue that aggressive new federal restrictions risk disenfranchising legitimate voters to solve a statistically negligible problem.