Why Are Illegal Immigrants Registering to Vote? | Ryan Walker

Heritage Explains

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As the fiscal year ends, Congress has to decide how to fund the government over the next few months. Heritage Action for America supports funding via a continuing resolution through March of 2025. Heritage Action also supports the inclusion of the SAVE Act, a key piece of election integrity legislation, in this continuing resolution. Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker joins the podcast to explain.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.9	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.5	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.6	To remind the current regime.
0:18.9	We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.4	All, all, and to get back in their box and stay there.
0:28.2	Lift-dard.
0:29.1	We have a lift-down.
0:32.1	From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.
0:44.2	Okay. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. Why do we vote on the first Tuesday in November?
0:48.6	Why not the third Thursday in June?
0:51.1	Or on a specific date like March 1st?
0:54.1	Well, the answer is that in 1845, Congress decided to designate the first Tuesday in November
1:00.0	as Election Day.
1:02.0	They chose this time of the year because in the largely agricultural society that America was at the time,
1:08.0	it wasn't during planting or harvest seasons.
1:10.0	Tuesday was chosen because
1:12.3	Election Day often required travel. Voting on Monday would require travel on Sunday, which
1:18.3	would interfere with worship. In addition, many businesses did their books on the first Monday
1:23.8	of the month. In any case, Election Day has stayed on that day in the calendar ever since,
1:30.6	and Americans rightly view voting as a sacred right, and one that is always facing challenges.
1:36.9	Here to talk about one of those challenges, and the conservative response to it, the Save Act,
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