The Rev Dr. Rick SchlosserDear Friends,
HR 22, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” (SAVE) Act purports to end “illegal” voting. First, the evidence of fraud in registration and voting per the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, was double digits to 2016. That’s right, under 100 cases despite hundreds of millions of votes.
The claim now is “thousands” of non-citizens are registered, but not a single case has shown up. None. NO FRAUD has ever been proven. 2016-now. Despite this, the SAVE Act has new registration demands that are not only a great hardship to voters who are poor, rural, born at home, etc. but which will actively disenfranchise married women.
As written, all voters must be registered under the name on their birth certificate. Many women took their husband’s last name at marriage, and the bill makes no provision for bringing marriage licenses to show the change. If your driver’s license or passport show a different name from your birth certificate, you may no longer vote. If you have no birth certificate, you have to get some kind of passport or other costly ID, and that has to have your name at birth.
Part of this is a religious agenda. The government has those within Congress who believe married women should not be allowed to vote, and this suits them perfectly. (Never mind the unintended consequence of having registered married female voters who are feminists and kept their own birth names.) The other group they wish to disenfranchise are transsexual people who have not gotten updated birth certificates which is most of them.
There is nothing about this bill that makes a lick of sense since registration fraud does not exist, but there is much that will do grave harm to a huge part of the American population.
Please write or call your House Representative and make clear how dangerous and useless this bill is. They need to hear from us before Wednesday since we don’t know exactly when it will arrive for the vote. These games are exhausting, but we need to stay on top of them. Let your voice be heard!
Please call your Representative. You can find the numbers here: Find Your Representative | house.gov If they won’t talk, please use the constituent form on their House.gov website to send a message. “Vote NO on HR 22 to truly SAVE OUR VOTE”! Our vote is part of our voice over issues in America. Please defend it now!
Thank you!