Vote No on the SAVE Act

Vote no on the SAVE Act. This bill won't stop noncitizen voting — it will stop eligible citizens from voting. Utah reviewed over 2 million registered voters and found exactly one noncitizen registration and zero instances of noncitizen voting. USCIS data shows only 0.04% of voter verification cases return as noncitizens. The problem this bill claims to solve barely exists. The harm it causes is real and measurable. Nine percent of eligible voters lack easy access to documentary proof of citizenship. Kansas tried this approach and blocked roughly 31,000 eligible citizens from registering — 12% of all applicants — while noncitizen registration before the law was just 0.002%. The SAVE Act also criminalizes election officials who register applicants without documentary proof, even when those applicants are actual citizens. That's not election integrity — that's voter suppression with legal teeth. Better options exist. Back-end database verification places the burden on government, not voters, and flags potential issues without stripping people of their registration. The SAVE Act takes effect immediately with no funding for states and only 10 days for federal guidance. That's a recipe for chaos and disenfranchisement. Vote no.