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The SAVE Act

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THE SAVE ACT

The SAVE Act is proposed federal legislation that includes a set of reforms that will:

Require every voter provide hard-copy citizenship documents like a birth certificate or passport in person every time they register or update their registration with a new name, address, or party affiliation.
Require voters register and update their registration in person, eliminating modern, convenient, and popular options such as online voter registration, registering by mail and voter registration drives.
Directs states to conduct ongoing purges of their voter rolls without appropriate guardrails.

We broke the bill down into three categories below.

Proof of Citizenship Requirements

The SAVE Act requires all voters to provide a document such as a passport or a birth certificate to register or to update their voter registration.

Driver’s licenses, including REAL IDs as well as military or tribal IDs alone would not be sufficient documentation for the vast majority of Americans to prove their citizenship.
There is no specified process outlined for birth certificates or passports that don’t match a voters’ current name under the SAVE Act.
Providing your Social Security Number on your voter registration application, will not be enough – only providing citizenship documents in person.

Due to lack of access to proper documentation, young people, people of color, married women, and people from low or no income backgrounds would disproportionately be suppressed.

Voter Registration Restrictions

The SAVE Act requires all voters to provide original hard copy proof of citizenship to register or to update their voter registration.

All voters would have to go in-person to their election office to register or to update their registration.
Mail and online voter registration services that are currently available in almost every state would be functionally eliminated.
Voter registration drives would become virtually ineffective.

Voter Roll Purges

The SAVE Act demands states conduct ongoing purges to the voter rolls even though much of the data used to conduct these purges is known to be faulty and insufficient. The SAVE Act would not require officials to notify registered voters before their removal from the voter rolls.

The registrations of many eligible voters would be wrongfully cancelled.
Citizens improperly purged may not learn about their cancelled registration until they try to vote.

Suppressed Voters by the Numbers

For context, 153 million voted in the 2024 Election.

Don’t have easy access to documents

Don’t have a birth certificate with their current name

Don’t have a valid passport

Sources: 1) Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, 2) Center for American Progress
and 3) Center for American Progress