1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

Imagine standing in a grocery store, calculating whether you can afford both food and the cost of obtaining the documents you need to prove what you have already sworn under oath — that you are an American citizen with every legal right to vote. Now imagine choosing food. Because what choice do you really have? That is the reality the SAVE Act creates for millions of Americans. We are living through one of the most economically punishing periods in recent memory. For families already stretched to their breaking point, the burden of gathering documents, taking unpaid time off work, and navigating government offices is not a minor inconvenience — it is an impossible wall between them and their constitutional right to vote. The SAVE Act does not just ask these Americans to prove their citizenship. It asks them to prove it in ways that poverty makes nearly impossible. That is not a free election. That is a rationed one. And then there are the women. Millions of American women who took their husband’s name in marriage will find themselves trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare — their identification no longer matching their registration through no fault of their own. The SAVE Act punishes women for getting married. That is not a side effect of this bill. For too many Americans it will be the lived experience of it. Here is the truth no supporter of this bill can escape — when eligible voters are turned away from the polls, the outcomes of those elections will never be fully trusted. Every voter turned away becomes a story. Every story becomes a grievance. Every grievance becomes another crack in the foundation of a democracy already under enormous strain. We are already a divided nation. The SAVE Act does not heal that division. It deepens it. Elections must be inclusive, fair, and so transparently administered that no reasonable person has legitimate grounds to question their validity. That is the standard a great democracy demands. The SAVE Act moves us in exactly the opposite direction — at enormous cost to the people who can least afford to pay it. Senator, your vote on this bill is your legacy. Your constituents — including the ones this bill would silence — are watching and they will remember. Vote NO on the SAVE Act. Because elections belong to all of us — or they belong to none of us.