Sample Messages Against the SAVE Act for Your Network
Activate the nonprofits in your network and invite them to take action against the SAVE Act.
And if you haven’t reached out to your own representative yet, go here to send a letter!
Below are two template email alerts you can adapt and send to your network
Version 1: Longer template with more context
The SAVE Act, H.R. 22 / S. 128 recently filed in Congress, is an unnecessary and damaging bill that would require voters to present proof of citizenship in person (typically a birth certificate or passport) every time they register or update their registration. However, there’s already a citizenship affirmation on voter registration forms and cases of actual non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare.
Instead of solving a real problem, the SAVE Act would end all nonprofit-led and third-party voter registration drives since only government officials would be able to review and accept proof of citizenship. Online Voter Registration would also end, as would mail-in registration, since documents need to be presented in-person, forcing Americans everywhere to physically go to an elections office every time they need to update their registration.
Tens of millions of American citizens would be prevented from voting. As many as 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to proof of citizenship. Low-income households are far less likely to hold a passport than others. Up to 69 million women have birth certificates that do not match their current name. Other voters lack transportation or the time to go in person to the elections office. This harmful bill disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations across the nation.
Tell your members of Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act by sending a letter today.
Nonprofit VOTE has made it easy – take 2 minutes and send a letter to your legislator. There’s already included template text for you to use!
Let’s make it easier, not harder for eligible citizens to participate and for our nonprofits to engage and invite people into the civic process. Protect our democratic values now!
Version 2: Shorter template
Act Now to Stop the SAVE Act
Proponents say the SAVE Act is about preventing non-citizen voting, but it’s a trick. We already have laws against that and instances of actual non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare. Instead, the SAVE Act effectively ends all nonprofit-led voter registration drives, ends online and mail-in registration by forcing voters to go in person to election offices, and disenfranchises tens of millions of eligible voters who either don’t have ready access to birth certificates or passports, or can’t easily get to an actual elections office. Learn more here.
The full House may vote as soon as next week! The time to act is now!
Tell your Representative to vote NO on the SAVE Act. It takes just 2 minutes using this advocacy tool with ready-to-send template emails.
