What is the SAVE ACT?

Use These SAVE Act Talking Points to Prepare your letter to your Rpresentative and Senators.

• The SAVE Act would undermine election integrity based on lies about who is voting.
• This bill will make it significantly harder, if not outright impossible, for millions of eligible voters to register or re-register to vote and have their voices heard.
• Voters are already required to show identification in order to vote. The SAVE Act is an attempt to trick us into making it harder for millions of eligible Americans to cast their votes.
• The SAVE Act isn’t about safeguarding elections — it’s about silencing voters. We must join together to oppose this dangerous legislation and protect people’s freedom to vote.
• With the SAVE Act, legislators are proposing changes to our elections that would severely limit access to the ballot for eligible Americans, especially voters of color, rural voters, military members, and women.
• The SAVE Act is an attempt by the federal government to usurp authority over elections at all levels.

Burdening Citizens

• The SAVE Act would put up barriers to voting by requiring every single American citizen to provide very specific documents, chiefly by either presenting a passport or an original copy of their birth certificate, in person when registering to vote and anytime they update their voter registration.
• This would be on top of voter ID laws that the majority of states already have in place.
• This bill would especially burden military voters, tribal voters, rural voters, survivors of natural disasters, and the tens of millions of married women in America who have changed their names.
• Surveys show that eight in ten married women have changed their surname, meaning they do not possess a birth certificate that matches their current legal name and therefore could not present it as valid proof of citizenship.
• Rural voters, working class voters, voters of color, and older Americans are less likely to hold a passport or readily accessible birth certificate, disproportionately harming their ability to vote under this bill.
• Members of the US Military could not even use their military ID to register to vote, unless it is accompanied by their military service record AND that record shows they were born in the US. Members of the military born overseas, including while their parents were serving abroad, could not use this type of ID.
• Tribal citizens would be unable to register using their Tribal ID alone. The SAVE Act would require Tribal ID to show the holder’s place of birth as the US, but most Tribal IDs do not list a place of birth.
• This bill would prevent survivors of natural disasters from registering or re-registering to vote if their passport or original birth certificate was lost or damaged.