It’s obvious from the “not just check a box” line that Jesus dork is aware that 18 USC §611 already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, but some rogue producer at Fox decided to drive it home even further – or was not rogue and assumed that the audience is stupid and wanted to push the text of the existing law as if it were that of Johnson and Trump’s bill.
What’s in the actual text of the Johnson/Trump bill is not public at this point, but it’s hard to see how it would actually work in practice other than requiring every single voter to either re-register using a passport, birth certificate, etc or show up to the polls with one of those on election day. Which would be fucking suicidal to Trump and Republicans who are counting on irresponsible, low-info voters to turn out en masse. If it’s only engaged voters with passports or their birth certificate in a file cabinet whose votes would count then you’d be looking at a coast-to-coast wipeout the likes of which the world has never seen before. Like 65 percent Biden, 35 percent Trump national popular vote, 400+ Electoral College for Biden would not be unrealistic to expect in that scenario.
It’ll be fun to see how many House Republicans realize that and refuse to vote for it, though it’ll probably be zero because they know the Senate will simply ignore it if they send it up.