Boss Hogg’s latest attempt to steal the midterms, with his SAVE bullshit isn’t really new. Kansas tried the same thing, when their rightwingnuts took over…it didn’t end well.

 As President Trump digs in on his demand that senators pass a strict voter identification bill, lawmakers debating the potential impacts of the Republican-backed SAVE America Act might look to one place that already tried it — Kansas.

In 2013, Republicans in that state implemented legislation passed two years earlier that was so similar it bore a nearly identical name — the Secure and Fair Elections, or SAFE, Act. It, too, aimed to root out voting fraud by noncitizens. As voters nationwide would be required to do under the SAVE Act, those seeking to register to vote in Kansas had to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport or a birth certificate.

The results weren’t great.

A federal judge struck down the law within a few years, after it was found to have blocked tens of thousands of eligible voters from registering while catching fewer than thirty noncitizens trying to do the same.