1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I would like to hear why you voted yes for the SAVE act, a piece of legislation condemned by 145 civil rights organizations. I am utterly shocked to hear you were not one of the representatives who refrained from voting on this. In 2024, 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls and 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors according to US Elections Assistance Commission data. 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote. People of color and disabled people are disproportionately affected by this trend of purging. Their votes are being wrongly suppressed in states with restrictive voting laws. And now your colleagues, instead of protecting these people, voted to pass the SAVE act. Similar polices have disenfranchised mass quantities of otherwise eligible voters, from the elderly to recently moved to people who are unhoused or who live on tribal land to overseas military personal to those who just don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship, an estimated 1 in ten Americans or 21 million . When Kansas and Arizona tried it, at least 230,000 eligible citizens were thrown out by computer glitch or administrative error. The SAVE act would expose everyone to the same chaos and act as voter suppression, all to condemn something that’s already highly illegal. My question to you is this: why were you willing to disregard statistics and history and abandon millions of people to costly overregulation? This is not a simple issue. Representative Kim, you have to tell your colleagues to stop ignoring the historical implications of voter law - you all look so sinister right now that even if this is politically motivated voter suppression, it won’t save the Republican Party from the consequences. I hope you will consider that and my letters carefully, as I am truly concerned and appalled for you. I am aware of threats made against any Republican who does not vote with the group, and feel it is all the more urgent to remind you how much your SoCal constituents hate the extremist agendas outlined in project 2025; I’ve seen it in my community this month, disgust like I’ve never seen. Years-old trump flags are gone in a matter of weeks. There is no “mandate” to comply with the group. Far from it, I think rejecting the extremism is the only thing that can save Republicans now. I write to you because I see you are genuinely committed to working class people and a leader in collaboration. I am deeply disturbed with this vote but still hope you will be what we need right now, someone who actually listens to multiple perspectives and is willing to stand up for the most vulnerable Americans.