***IMMEDIATE ACTION***TELL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO REJECT THE ANTI-VOTER SAVE ACT [3-3-25]
Voting’s a fundamental right government should protect, but Trump and MAGA Republicans want to disenfranchise millions of citizens with the SAVE Act (HR.22/S128), by forcing us to prove our citizenship in person with either a passport or a birth certificate matching our legal name when registering to vote or moving or changing party affiliation.
The ramifications of this requirement are enormous:
--146 million Americans have no passport, including the vast majority of working-class and low-income citizens—a huge number, given only 153 million voted in 2024.
--Since 84% of women change their names when marrying, as many as 69 million could not use their birth certificates to register because the surnames wouldn’t match.
--Online voter registration (used by 10.8 million in 42 states in 2022 ), mailed-in applications (used by 7.3 million), and voter registration drives would be eliminated.
--Because only 5.9% of the 80.1 million who registered or updated their registrations in 2022 did so in person, tens of millions would have to visit overcrowded local election offices to update their information every voting cycle—overwhelming offices and creating significant barriers to voting, especially for the 60 million rural voters and others with transportation problems.
Since our laws already prevent noncitizen voting, imposing unnecessary and burdensome barriers to voting for the vast majority to prevent the 85 cases of alleged noncitizen voting the Heritage Foundation uncovered from 2002-2023 is nonsensical.
The SAVE Act’s about disenfranchisement, not safeguarding elections, and I expect you to ensure it does not become law.
ACTION One: Call the Senate and the House.
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
REP. BONAMICI: Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | D.C. office: 202-225-0855
REP. BENTZ: Medford office: 541-776-4646 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. DEXTER: Portland office: 503-231-2300 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. HOYLE: Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | D.C. office: 202-225-6416
REP. BYNUM: D.C. office: 202-225-5711
REP. SALINAS: Salem office: 503-385-0906 | D.C. office: 202-225-5643
