DIGITAL RALLY: Republicans Are Preparing to Steal the Election

Congress is likely to vote on the SAVE America Act in the next few days.

The SAVE America Act is a sweeping federal bill that would upend how Americans register and vote, especially by mail, under the banner of “election integrity.” It passed the House in February and is now in the Senate, where it requires 60 votes to move forward. On paper it targets a virtually nonexistent problem—noncitizen voting—which studies and state reviews consistently find to be exceptionally rare, while shifting the burden and the cost of “proving” eligibility onto ordinary voters.

SOCIAL STORM!

We expect the Senate to vote on the bill this week. Today, the DemCast community and allied partners are storming social media to urge our fellow Americans to vocally oppose this voter suppression bill!

PLEASE visit our social media toolkit and share a few posts about the Save America Act across all social platforms.

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ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

At its core, the bill rewrites voter registration by forcing every voter to show “documentary proof of citizenship” in person—typically a passport, certified birth certificate, or naturalization certificate—to get on or stay on the rolls. Driver’s licenses, REAL IDs in most states, military and veterans IDs, and student IDs do not qualify, and there is no national rule for what happens when the name on your citizenship document doesn’t match your current legal name.

That gap hits married women and anyone who changed their name especially hard: roughly 69 million married women have a birth certificate that no longer matches their current name, and the bill gives them no guaranteed way to use that document without navigating a patchwork of state rules and “bridge” paperwork that local officials are encouraged to scrutinize or reject.

Crucially, the SAVE America Act functions like a modern poll tax: there is no federal funding or free alternative for the documents it requires, and in the real world, those documents cost money—roughly 130–165 dollars for a passport, fees for certified birth certificates, and more than 500 dollars to replace a naturalization certificate.

At the same time, it layers on strict ID-copy rules for mail voting—requiring voters to print and enclose a copy of a government photo ID both when requesting a ballot and when sending it back—which would effectively dismantle successful all-mail systems in states like Oregon and Colorado and create new hurdles for seniors, disabled voters, rural communities, and low-income people without easy printer or copier access.

Voting-rights advocates warn that, taken together, these costs and paperwork traps would disenfranchise millions of fully eligible Americans—not because they’re not citizens, but because the process is designed to make it harder and more expensive to exercise a fundamental right.

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