1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I urge you to oppose the SAVE Act (H.R. 22 / S. 128) and any expanded version, including a so-called “SAVE Act Plus” or “Super SAVE Act.” This legislation is not about election security. It is a coordinated effort to suppress lawful voters by turning registration into a bureaucratic obstacle course. First, the SAVE Act requires documentary proof of citizenship, making voter registration fragile and failure-prone for the millions of married women who have changed their last names, or voters who moved, updated their registration. Second, the SAVE Act would eliminate or severely disrupt modern voter registration. forcing many Americans to register in person and disproportionately harming rural and disabled voters, students, and seniors, among others. Third, the legislation imposes criminal penalties on election officials creating a chilling effect in which election administrators are incentivized to reject valid registrations rather than risk prosecution or litigation. Fourth, expanded versions of the SAVE Act envision aggressive voter roll purges and sweeping data collection. Although the Senate previously stopped the SAVE Act, Donald Trump and his allies are escalating pressure to revive it in a more extreme form. I urge you to: 1. Publicly oppose the SAVE Act and any expanded version. 2. Refuse to allow voter suppression measures to be attached to must-pass legislation. 3. Hold hearings on the real-world disenfranchisement these proposals would cause. 4. Support policies that expand access to the ballot, rather than restrict it.