Tell Congress: Reject the MEGA and SAVE America Acts

Lawmakers tried and failed last year to suppress the vote with the dangerous SAVE Act, which would have disenfranchised millions of Americans. Now, they’re escalating their election interference efforts with the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act and the SAVE America Act.

If either of these bills become law, millions of Americans could lose their ability to vote and the executive branch would gain tremendous new powers to interfere with elections.

These bills would put up new barriers by:

Requiring Americans to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport or original birth certificate, to register to vote
Making many commonly used IDs insufficient on their own including REAL IDs, driver’s licenses, military IDs, and most Tribal IDs
Creating new barriers for people who have changed their name, including many married women
Imposing new national photo ID requirements, including for people who vote by mail
Restricting widely used mail voting practices and making it harder to vote by mail
Banning innovative solutions like Ranked Choice Voting that give voters more voice
Increasing the risk that eligible voters are wrongly removed from voter rolls

Additionally, the bills would take election authority away from the states and raise concerns about federal interference with free and fair elections.

For example, they require states to:

Share citizenship data with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE
Share data with the Department of Justice, at risk of losing election funding
Cooperate with a federal takeover of election administration, including unfunded requirements around ballots, provisional ballots, list maintenance, and even driver’s license design (updating licenses to include citizenship status)

The effects of these bills would be devastating: More than 150 million Americans do not have a passport, and many other Americans do not have readily available access to their birth certificates, including millions of women whose birth certificates do not reflect their current legal name.

And giving the executive branch (which oversees the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice) so much power over elections creates tremendous risks to our country’s ability to hold free and fair elections.

Congress is voting on these bills soon. Tell your Members of Congress to reject these bills and safeguard the right of every American citizen to vote.

Add your name to this letter

To my Member of Congress,

I am a concerned constituent writing to express my opposition to the SAVE America Act and the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act.

Most Americans believe our democracy is stronger when eligible voters have equal access to the ballot box and when the voices of everyday Americans can be heard. These bills move us in the wrong direction by making it harder for eligible citizens to register and vote.

Non-citizen voting is already illegal, and election officials already have systems in place to verify voter eligibility. These bills would not improve election security. Instead, they would restrict widely used voting methods and increase the risk that eligible voters are wrongly removed from voter rolls.

The bills would also take election authority away from the states and give the executive branch vast new powers to interfere with elections, actually making our elections less safe, less free, and less fair.

I urge you to oppose the SAVE America Act and the MEGA Act and to focus on protecting the freedom to vote and ensuring that every eligible voter’s voice can be heard.

Sincerely,

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