1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to express my serious concern regarding President Trump’s July 16 address and his renewed effort to pressure Congress into passing the SAVE America Act. The President again attempted to connect foreign access to voter information, potential vulnerabilities in election systems, and isolated voter-registration irregularities to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. However, the documents released by the White House do not establish that a foreign government cast fraudulent ballots, altered voter registrations, manipulated vote totals, or changed the outcome of that election. The Intelligence Community has long distinguished between foreign influence and election interference. Foreign governments regularly attempt to shape American public opinion through propaganda, social media, lobbying, cyber activity, and the collection of publicly or commercially available information. Those activities deserve appropriate counterintelligence and cybersecurity responses. They are not proof of voter fraud. The Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election found no indication that any foreign actor attempted to alter voter registration, ballot casting, vote tabulation, or the reporting of results. The newly released materials identify possible vulnerabilities and investigative leads, but they still do not provide evidence that foreign activity produced fraudulent votes or changed the certified winner. I strongly support secure elections and the principle that only eligible United States citizens may vote. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal. Election-security legislation should therefore be based on demonstrated problems, measurable risks, and reliable evidence—not on the President’s continued refusal to accept the certified result of an election he lost. The SAVE America Act would impose sweeping federal requirements involving documentary proof of citizenship, voter identification, voter-roll maintenance, and election administration. The White House is also promoting significant restrictions on voting by mail. These changes could burden eligible citizens—including married people whose names have changed, older voters, rural voters, military families, naturalized citizens, and people who do not have ready access to passports or birth certificates. The administration describes the proposal as requiring proof of citizenship and identification and directing states to remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls. States and local governments have traditionally carried the principal responsibility for administering elections. Although Congress possesses constitutional authority to regulate aspects of federal elections, that authority should not be used to unnecessarily displace state election systems or impose nationwide restrictions unsupported by evidence of a nationwide problem. Broad changes to voting rules based on unsubstantiated allegations would not restore confidence in elections. They would reward the deliberate creation of doubt, make voting more difficult for some eligible Americans, and further weaken confidence in democratic institutions. I respectfully ask you to: • Oppose the SAVE America Act and similar legislation that imposes unnecessary barriers on eligible voters. Demand public, verifiable evidence before considering sweeping changes to federal election law. • Protect the appropriate role of state and local election administrators. • Support practical election-security measures, including paper records, meaningful audits, cybersecurity funding, accurate voter-roll maintenance, and due process before any voter is removed. • Publicly reject the unsupported assertion that foreign interference or widespread fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. • Use all tools at your disposal to prevent this administration from withholding or weaponizing Congressionally appropriated resources in an attempt to push through changes to established and effective elections processes. Election integrity is essential, but integrity requires facts, transparency, proportionality, and respect for the voting rights of eligible citizens. Congress should not restructure American elections to accommodate one president’s unwillingness to accept a verified electoral defeat.