Americans do not need MORE obstacles to casting their votes.
The so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (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.
SAVE would require citizenship documentation to register to vote even though voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering.
It is already illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in federal or state elections. Voting by non-citizens has been shown over and over to be a non-issue. It rarely happens.
The bill’s requirement of a document to prove American citizenship to register to vote creates an unnecessary hardship for many eligible voters.
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.
Learn more about SAVE at
nonprofitvote.org.
Protect the right to vote. Contact your members of Congress to register your opposition to the SAVE Act on the LWVUS website
here.