An important vote is coming up that will affect our ability to vote, and we need our members of Congress to vote NO.

What's the SAVE America ACT? It's a bill that would add additional barriers to voting, especially for those of us living far away from home.

The SAVE America Act not only requires voters to show a narrow list of documents like a passport or birth certificate in person to register — it ALSO requires voters to include similar documents that contain personally-identifying information when they request an absentee ballot AND again later when they send that ballot in.

This means:

1. Functionally, no more voter registration from your far-away duty station.

2. If you were born overseas, if you’ve changed your first or last name since birth, or if you simply don’t have access to your paperwork because you’re mid-PCS, potentially no possibility to register to vote at all.

3. AND only being able to vote from your far-away duty station if you accept heightened risk to your personal identification information at multiple steps in the process.

As we come upon the 250th anniversary of the United States, this legislation is a slap in the face to the generations of people throughout American history who have raised their voices, fought, and died to establish and preserve the right to vote for every American. After the Civil War, Black American veterans were threatened, beaten, and murdered for attempting to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Native Americans, who serve in the armed forces at a higher rate than any other demographic, faced centuries of struggle before acquiring full legal protection of their voting rights as citizens. When Asian Americans were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II, they fought to preserve their core tenet of citizenship: the right to vote. For nearly a century, Hispanic U.S. citizens faced severe brutality to access the polls as equitably as their neighbors.

Non-citizen voting in federal elections is already illegal and carries strict punishments. States already have robust checks and processes to ensure only eligible voters are voting, without adding all of these additional barriers on Americans. State Boards of Elections verify the identity and eligibility of voters by cross-referencing their information (like ID numbers, signature matching, etc.) against existing databases, well in advance before Election Day. This bill adds unnecessary paperwork requirements and additional challenges that WILL deny eligible voters access to the ballot box.

In February of this year this bill passed the House of Representatives...the good news is, it hasn't passed the Senate. Tell your Senator this bill will be terrible for military families and voters living overseas - and to stop this from taking effect.

Use our tool on the right.