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Republican Congressman Bryan Steil (Wis.) introduced a new suite of election reform items on Thursday aimed at codifying key requirements for American citizens who want to safely and securely cast their ballots in U.S. elections.
Rep. Steil, also the chairman of the House Administration Committee, has called his reform package the “Make Elections Great Again Act.’
The legislation will be officially introduced on Friday, according to the congressman’s office, and has garnered the support of Early Vote Action Founder Scott Presler.
“I’ve spent the last decade registering voters across the country and empowering Americans to vote. Without fair elections, we aren’t a free nation,” Presler said in a statement. “Thank you to Chairman Steil for his leadership on comprehensive election reform. Let’s make elections great again!”
The legislation, if passed and signed into law, would require photo identification to vote and further require states to verify the citizenship of individuals when registering to vote. The package would also:
- Require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on Election Day,
- Ban ballot harvesting,
- Ban ranked choice voting,
- Ban universal voting-by-mail,
- And implement “stronger routine voter list maintenance requirements” in individual states.
This new legislation comes amid President Trump’s repeated public calls for Congress to codify voter identification requirements nationwide.
Just last week, President Trump noted, “WE DEMAND VOTER I.D.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., remarked recently that House Republicans were working to introduce legislation on the floor that would include photo identification, rather than simple proof of citizenship, as was originally proposed in the SAVE Act – a bill that passed the House twice but failed to move past the U.S. Senate.
“Americans should be confident their elections are being run with integrity – including commonsense voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification,” said Rep. Steil of the newly announced MEGA Act.
He added, “These reforms will improve voter confidence, bolster election integrity, and make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat.”
On X, Scott Presler described the unveiled MEGA legislation as “‘If I waved a magic wand & were able to deliver every reform to secure our elections’ Act.”