LWVAC is launching a "What You Can Do" (WYCD) campaign where we share a series of action plans. With so much happening on the national stage, these action plans are intended to encourage you to respond to the daily breach of the rule of law and the separation of powers. Read more about this campaign here. 

CURRENT ACTION: Call your legislators to object to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act

A bill is making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives and may go to the Senate that significantly impacts voting registration and changes. For details, go to Center for American Progress. An excerpt is copied below. Please call your legislators and ask them not to support or vote for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) bill.

• The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would require all American citizens registering to vote or updating their registration information to present documentary proof of citizenship in person. For the vast majority of Americans, this would be a passport or birth certificate.
• Government-issued driver’s licenses—including REAL IDs—as well as military or tribal IDs do not satisfy the bill’s requirements.
• The legislation would invert the responsibility to verify a person’s eligibility and citizenship status from election officials and the government onto every single American citizen, making citizens convince the government that they’re eligible to exercise their right to vote.
• The SAVE Act would change the way all citizens register to vote upon enactment. It would upend online voter registration, make it impossible to mail in a registration application, and eliminate voter registration drives.

PolitiFact provides more information about the SAVE bill. The LWV of the United States urges people to call their legislators. Voting registration has become more difficult. Adding more requirements does not encourage voting.

Call your legislators and ask each one not to support or vote for the SAVE bill.