China rejects Trump’s claims of election interference as ‘pure fabrication’ – US politics live

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Donald Trump repeated calls in his Thursday speech for the passage of the Save America Act - a rebranded and expanded version of last year's Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, which passed in the US House but didn't get a vote in the Senate.

This year's version includes a very strict voter ID requirement for casting a ballot and a provision that requires states to regularly turn their voter rolls over to the Department of Homeland Security, in addition to criminal liability for election officials who register a voter without proper documentary proof of citizenship.