1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to ask you to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, H.R. 22. This would be the worst voting bill to be passed by Congress in many years. It would restrict the freedom to vote for millions of eligible American citizens and it must be defeated. The SAVE Act would require every American to produce either a passport or birth certificate each time they register or re-register to vote. This could block millions of American citizens from voting. More than 21 million American citizens do not have their passport or birth certificate readily available. Only about half of American adults have a passport, and millions lack easy access to a paper copy of their birth certificate. In addition, the SAVE Act would eliminate or upend most methods of registering to vote. Mail and online registration would be essentially abolished. The bill would also direct states to purge their voter rolls based on faulty data and without appropriate guardrails, like requiring officials to notify voters before removing them from the list.