Act Now!

Tell Your Representatives to Oppose the SAVE Act Here

Don’t let Congress make voting harder!

The House and Senate introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to register to vote despite the fact that voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering.

Americans do not need MORE obstacles to casting their votes. The SAVE Act is now before the House and Senate and will be voted on soon. While purporting to protect election integrity, SAVE is actually a threat to voting rights.

It is already illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in federal or state elections. Additionally, we have processes to ensure our elections are secure and that only eligible voters are casting ballots.

The bill’s requirement of a document to prove American citizenship to register to vote creates an unnecessary hardship for many eligible voters, as many eligible voters do not have easy access to the necessary documents or face difficulties accessing them.

SAVE would effectively end voter registration drives like those conducted by the League and other good government organizations and online voter registration.

SAVE is yet another barrier to voting supported by those who seek to divide us, to limit the franchise, and to prevent citizens from exercising their lawful right to vote.
Read the LWV press release.  And read the letter LWV sent to Congressional leadership.

Protect the right to vote.  Contact your members of Congress to register your opposition to the SAVE Act on the LWVUS website here.