Tell the Senate: Block the SAVE Act and all voter suppression bills

The petition to the Senate reads: 

As a coalition of women and allies, we strongly urge you to oppose the SAVE Act and its more extreme versions--the SAVE America Act and MEGA Act--and to do everything in your power to convince your fellow Senators to do the same. Simply put, these are voter suppression bills that would keep millions of eligible U.S. citizens from being able to vote, including the tens of millions of married women who have changed their names. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to safeguard free and fair elections and ensure all American citizens can freely, securely, and easily exercise their right to vote. A yes vote on any of these bills would break that constitutional vow and represent a vote against Democracy.

The Senate vote on the so-called “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” (SAVE) Act and suite of sister voter suppression bills could happen as early as today.

If signed into law, SAVE would ratchet up voter ID laws that could prevent millions of people from voting. Under SAVE, all eligible voters would need to present a photo ID and proof of citizenship, such as a passport or an original copy of a birth certificate, when registering to vote or changing their voter information. The problem is that millions of U.S. citizens lack ready access to either of those documents. Research shows that more than 9% of citizens of voting age (21.3 million Americans) do not have proof of citizenship readily available, and that at least 3.8 million do not have these documents at all because of loss, damage, or theft. In addition, surveys show that eight in 10 married women have changed their surname, meaning they do not possess a birth certificate that matches their current legal name. Under SAVE, millions of women would have to change their identification documents before voting, a process that can be slow and expensive.

The SAVE Act passed the U.S. House by a slim margin in 2025, but together, we stopped the bill from going any further. In 2026, Republicans reintroduced the SAVE Act along with two new even more extreme voter suppression bills, the Make Elections Great Again Act (MEGA) and the Save America Act. These bills have already passed in the House, so now we need to turn up the pressure on the Senate to block them.

Though under new names, these bills are part of the same effort by Republican members of Congress to stop millions of eligible voters from participating in the upcoming mid-term elections. Together, we must demand at stop to them.