About 21 million Americans lack ready access to the documents a restrictive federal voter-ID/citizenship requirement would ask for, according to reporting and research cited in coverage of Trump’s SAVE America Act push. A separate estimate in that coverage says 2.6 million people do not have any government-issued photo ID.

What that means

The larger figure refers to Americans who lack readily available proof-of- citizenship documents such as a passport or birth certificate, which is the kind of documentation the bill would require for registration.

The photo-ID figure is narrower and refers to people without any government- issued photo ID at all, which would matter for the bill’s in-person voting requirement.

Why the number matters

Supporters frame the proposal as election security, but critics argue it would block millions of eligible voters, especially younger voters, women whose names changed after marriage, and voters of color.

The bill described in recent coverage has not cleared the Senate because it lacks the needed votes.

Bottom line

If you mean the number of Americans who could be affected by the restrictive ID-and-citizenship rules, the best cited estimate in current coverage is more than 21 million.

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