2026年3月26日 / 美国东部时间下午1:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿 — 一项要求选民在投票时出示照片身份证明的修正案于周四在参议院未能推进，尽管参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默上周表示民主党并不反对此类要求。
该选举法案修正案需要获得60票才能推进。最终以53票对47票被否决。
此次投票发生在围绕备受争议的《保护美国选举法案》（SAVE America Act）进行的马拉松式辩论的第二周。该法案要求登记投票时需提供公民身份证明，并在投票时出示特定形式的照片身份证明。该立法在参议院中尚未获得足够支持以突破60票的门槛，但特朗普总统已加大对参议院共和党人的压力，要求他们想办法强行通过该法案。
舒默在投票前谴责了这项修正案，称其将”实施美国最严格的选民ID法律”。
“这项激进的修正案将废除所有50个州在联邦选举中的选民ID要求，代之以一种过度限制、一刀切的做法，”这位纽约州民主党人表示。
俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·哈斯特提出了这项修正案，他列出的有效照片身份证明包括驾驶执照、州签发的身份证明、护照、军事身份证明或部落身份证明。
南达科他州共和党人、参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩在周三的演说中表示：”现在人们钱包里的这些身份证件，是美国民众日常使用的。”
投票前，哈斯特称该修正案”干净、简单、直接”，并补充说”没有额外限制，没有诡计，没有把戏，也没有对缺席投票的禁令”。
舒默表示，这将要求邮寄投票的人在选票中附上ID复印件，这将消除某人如何投票的保密性。
哈斯特指责舒默歪曲了邮寄投票流程的运作方式。他说，选民只需在包含选票的保密信封外部附上其ID的照片或社会安全号码的后四位数字。在将选票与选民信息分离并单独计票之前，会先验证这些信息是否来自登记选民，他解释道。
民调显示，美国人普遍支持要求出示有效身份证件才能投票。
图恩周二表示，在舒默上周表示民主党不反对照片ID后，共和党人将在这个问题上让民主党人面临考验。舒默称，”我们作为民主党的反对不是针对照片ID”，他抨击《保护美国选举法案》是”一场赤裸裸的企图操纵我们选举的行为”。
“这是一个公众广泛认同的问题，显然我们会给民主党人一个机会来就这个特定问题进行投票，即人们在投票时是否应该出示某种形式的身份证明，”图恩说。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-urges-gop-leaders-not-to-make-deal-to-end-shutdown-unless-democrats-back-voter-id-bill/
Amendment to require photo ID to vote fails in Senate as Democrats object
March 26, 2026 / 1:40 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — An amendment that would require voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday, despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying last week that Democrats were not opposed to such a requirement.
The amendment to the elections bill needed 60 votes to advance. It was defeated in a 53 to 47 vote.
The vote came during the second week of a marathon debate over a controversial elections bill known as the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and certain forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. The legislation does not have enough support to clear the 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber, but President Trump has dialed up the pressure on Senate Republicans to find a way to force it through.
Schumer condemned the amendment on Thursday before the vote, arguing it would “impose the single strictest voter ID law in America.”
“This radical amendment would toss out every single voter ID requirement in all 50 states for federal elections and put in an overly restrictive, one-size-fits-all approach,” the New York Democrat said.
GOP Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio offered the amendment, which lists valid forms of photo ID as a driver’s license, state-issued identification, passport, military ID or tribal ID.
“The types of IDs that are sitting in wallets right now, that the American people use on a regular basis,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said in a floor speech Wednesday.
Ahead of the vote, Husted called the amendment “clean, simple, straightforward,” adding that there are “no additional restrictions, no tricks, no games, no prohibition on absentee voting.”
Schumer said it would require people who vote by mail to include a photocopy of their ID with their ballot, which would eliminate the secrecy of how someone voted.
Husted accused Schumer of misrepresenting how the mail-in ballot process would work. He said voters would include a photo of their ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the outside of the secrecy envelope containing the ballot. The information would be validated to ensure that it’s from a registered voter before separating it from the ballot, which would be counted separately, he said.
Polling has shown Americans are largely in favor of requiring a valid ID to vote.
Thune said Tuesday that Republicans would put Democrats on the spot on the issue after Schumer said last week that Democrats are not opposed to photo ID. Schumer said, “our objection as Democrats is not to a photo ID,” as he railed against the SAVE America Act as “a naked attempt to rig our elections.”
“This is an issue on which there is broad agreement with the public, and obviously we’re going to give the Democrats an opportunity to vote on that one particular issue, and that is whether or not people ought to have to show some form of identification when they go to vote,” Thune said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-urges-gop-leaders-not-to-make-deal-to-end-shutdown-unless-democrats-back-voter-id-bill/
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