Monday, January 27, 2025

Protect Voting Rights - Vote NO on SAVE

 From ACLU:

The SAVE Act, H.R.8281, is a direct attack on voting rights, and we must stop it from passing.

This bill would create unnecessary new barriers by forcing voters to show documentary proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, just to register to vote and will require faulty voter roll purges that will lead to eligible voters being disenfranchised. It's a bill based on lies about widespread voter fraud and it threatens to block millions of eligible Americans from voting who lack easy access to these records due to financial or systemic barriers.

Fill out this form to email your Representative and urge them to VOTE NO on the SAVE Act—take action today to protect our democracy and our rights!

If passed, the SAVE Act would: 

  • Create Barriers for Millions of Voters: Over 21 million Americans lack easy access to the documents this law would require for voter registration.
  • Target Marginalized Communities: Voters of color, naturalized citizens, young and older voters, and individuals with low incomes would face the biggest hurdles.
  • Increase Erroneous Voter Roll Purges: More frequent and erroneous purges of registered voters, even in some cases voters who have been registered and voted for years.
  • Impede Election Administration: This bill imposes significant burdens and costs on state and local election officials—who are already vastly underfunded and understaffed—and imposes criminal and civil liability to their everyday activities.
  • Repeat Past Failures: Kansas implemented a similar law over a decade ago that disenfranchised over 35,000 eligible voters before courts struck it down as unconstitutional.

The SAVE Act isn't about safeguarding elections. It's about silencing voters, and we need you to tell Congress to vote NO on this bill. Congress should be expanding our voting rights, not rolling them back.

Learn more: https://act.aclu.org/a/save-act

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From ProtectDemocracy.org - Seven tactics that unite authoritarian leaders:

"CORRUPTING ELECTIONS: The biggest innovation of 21st-century authoritarians has been to maintain the facade of democratic elections while at the same time tilting the rules against their opponents. They do this by suppressing votes and biasing, distorting, falsifying, or even overturning the results — either through capturing the referees (e.g. installing loyalists as election officials, putting pressure on otherwise independent officials, etc.) or by manipulating the electoral rules in their favor."


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