Friend, I wanted to follow up on my earlier email and make sure you didn’t miss the chance to sign our petition against the SAVE Act.

→ Tell Congress to protect our voting rights and vote NO on the SAVE Act.

The SAVE Act has been all over the news lately and here’s why: House Republicans are attempting to pass legislation to restrict eligible American voters in order to keep people from voting. The SAVE Act would require all eligible Americans to provide proof of citizenship by presenting a passport or birth certificate when registering to vote.

Not only will this bill burden military voters, tribal voters, rural voters and survivors of natural disasters, it will also disenfranchise millions of women voters. Are you one of the nearly 69 million married women in the US who changed your name when you married? Is your married name on your birth certificate? No? Then you won’t be able to use that to register to vote. 

We’re expecting this bill to be brought to the House Floor next week so it’s important that we speak out and call out this harmful bill that will create barriers that weaken our democracy and silence voters.

→ The SAVE Act is a dangerous anti-voter bill and it will not make our elections safer. Urge your members of Congress to vote NO on this terrible bill.

Together we can make change!

--Namatie, Ruth, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

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Date: March 5, 2025
From: "Namatie, MomsRising.org"  ([email protected]) 
To: Friend
Subject: SIGN NOW: Tell you legislator to vote NO on the SAVE Act

Sign now to tell your legislator to vote NO on the SAVE Act! TAKE ACTION

Dear Friend,

Did you get married and change your last name? If so, Republicans in Congress are trying to make it harder for you to vote. In case you missed it, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” (SAVE) Act has been reintroduced in Congress, BUT the name is deceiving because it will do nothing to make elections safer.

We need your help to tell Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act!

→ Tell Congress to protect our voting rights and vote NO on the SAVE Act.

Here’s what's happening: Extremist House Republicans are attempting to pass legislation to restrict eligible American voters in order to keep people from voting. The SAVE Act would require all eligible Americans to provide proof of citizenship by presenting a passport or birth certificate when registering to vote.

And this is in addition to voter ID laws that already exist in most states, so it’s not needed at all.

The SAVE Act is deceptively named because its purpose is to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. Right now over 21.3 million people lack easy access to documents that prove citizenship like a passport, U.S. birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or citizenship certificate. [1] This is more complicated than it seems at first…

Are you one of the nearly 69 million married women in the US who changed your name when you married? Is your married name on your birth certificate? No? Then you won’t be able to use that to register to vote.

In this country, the voters pick elected officials, not the other way around, but the SAVE Act attempts to do just that - make it harder for voters to vote. It has a disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian, and other people of color, married people who have changed their names, and young and elderly people are more likely to have problems accessing these documents.

The bill also burdens military voters, tribal voters, rural voters, survivors of natural disasters and the millions of married women in America who have changed their names.

Additionally, members of the LGBTQ+ community – particularly Trans Americans who have gone through the process of changing their legal name and therefore can no longer use their birth certificate for proof of eligibility and citizenship – would be impacted. [2]

If passed, many voters wouldn’t be able to register to vote with just their driver’s license, they would need an Enhanced Driver's License or other forms of documentation like a U.S. passport or birth certificate. [3] This does nothing to strengthen our elections, it simply causes confusion and chaos.

→ Help fight back by contacting your Member of Congress and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

But wait, there’s more. The SAVE Act would threaten mail and online registration, making it impossible for Americans to register to vote by mail, and ending voter registration drives nationwide. To make the point even clearer, more than seven million Americans registered to vote by mail in 2022 and nearly 11 million Americans registered to vote online. [4] No part of the SAVE Act is beneficial to voters. Mandating states conduct voter purges, imprisoning election workers, limiting access to the polls with restrictive voter ID requirements; this is bad.

→ The SAVE Act is a dangerous anti-voter bill and it will not make our elections safer. Urge your members of Congress to vote NO on this terrible bill.

What it will do is present even more barriers for low-income voters and voters from marginalized communities to participate in elections by requiring citizenship documentation. It will impact working families, older voters, and women who’ve changed their last name and those who’ve lost their documents due to natural disasters.

To put it plainly, it will create barriers that weaken our democracy and silence voters.

This is why we are asking for your help in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

Thanks for all you do,

--Namatie, Ruth, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

References:
[1] 21.3 Million American Citizens of Voting Age Don’t Have Ready Access to Citizenship Documents
[2] Married Women Could Be Stopped From Voting Under SAVE Act
[3,4] What You Need to Know About the SAVE Act

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