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VOTE NO FOR THE SAVE ACT. A new version of the SAVE Act has just passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 218-213 in Congress, and it would once again change how people register to vote in federal elections. The 2026 Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act (SAVE America Act, H.R. 7296) would require documentary proof of United States citizenship when someone registers to vote or updates their registration. This replaces the current system, which relies on a signed statement under penalty of perjury. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, this requirement could block 21 million eligible citizens from registering because many do not have easy access to documents like passports or birth certificates. Proponents say the SAVE Act is about preventing non-citizen voting, but it’s a trick. We already have laws against that and instances of actual non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare. Instead, the SAVE Act effectively ends all nonprofit-led voter registration drives, ends online and mail-in registration by forcing voters to go in person to election offices, and disenfranchises tens of millions of eligible voters who either don’t have ready access to birth certificates or passports, or can’t easily get to an actual elections office. The bill has already passed the House and is currently sitting in the Senate! The time to act is now! VOTE NO FOR THE SAVE ACT.