1. United States
2. Letter

I am writing to urge you to oppose both versions of the SAVE Act currently being considered in Congress. These bills would create unprecedented barriers to voting that would prevent millions of eligible American citizens from exercising their constitutional rights before the November elections. The SAVE Act would require documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote, despite research showing more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to these documents. Roughly half of Americans don't have passports, and millions lack paper copies of birth certificates. This requirement would disproportionately impact younger voters, voters of color, and millions of women whose married names don't match their birth certificates or passports. The House version, the Make Elections Great Again Act, goes even further by requiring proof of both citizenship and residence for registration, potentially blocking the approximately 9% of the population that has moved within a state in the past year. It mandates restrictive photo ID requirements that exclude student IDs and tribal IDs without expiration dates. It also prohibits universal mail voting, which would end the primary voting method in eight states and Washington, DC. The Senate version, the SAVE America Act, requires voters to show documents like passports or birth certificates both to register and to cast a ballot. It punishes citizens of states protecting voter privacy by exempting only those states that have been regularly sharing voter rolls with the Department of Homeland Security since June 2025. These bills solve no actual problem. The Trump administration's own investigations and state reviews in Louisiana and Utah have confirmed that only American citizens vote and illegal voting is vanishingly rare. Instead, these bills would create chaos in election administration by placing massive unfunded burdens on state and local officials who would face civil and criminal penalties for honest mistakes. I urge you to reject the SAVE Act and protect the voting rights of your constituents.