SAVE ACT LETTER

Letters sent to Senators Scott and Moody, Florida 4/18/26

Paul Kruger

March 18, 2026

Dear Senators

I am writing to urge you in the strongest possible terms to vote against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — the SAVE Act / SAVE America Act (H.R. 7296) — currently before the United States Senate. As your constituent and a lifelong participant in our democratic process, I am deeply alarmed by this legislation and the irreparable harm it would cause to millions of eligible American voters.

This bill is a solution in search of a problem. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal under federal law and has been proven to be extraordinarily rare. A recent citizenship review of Utah’s entire voter rolls — more than two million registered voters — found exactly one confirmed noncitizen registration and zero instances of noncitizen voting. Federal data shows that just 0.04 percent of voter verification cases are flagged as potential noncitizens. The premise driving this legislation simply does not hold up to scrutiny.

What the SAVE Act would do is create massive, real barriers for lawful American citizens. Approximately 21 million Americans do not have ready access to documents proving their citizenship, and around 9 percent of eligible voters lack the identification the bill would require. A driver’s license — the document most Americans use for identification — would no longer be sufficient to register to vote, because most licenses do not indicate citizenship. Voters would instead need a passport (held by roughly half of Americans), a birth certificate, or other less commonly carried documentation, and for mail registrants, this proof would have to be delivered in person to an election office.

The burden falls most heavily on women who have changed their legal names through marriage or otherwise, on low-income voters, on elderly citizens, and on minority communities — groups statistically less likely to possess the specific document combinations this bill demands. Any time an already-registered voter moves to a new address or switches party affiliation, they would be required to present these documents again. Seven million Americans registered by mail in 2022, and 11 million registered online; this legislation would effectively eliminate both pathways.

Equally troubling, the SAVE Act would expose election officials to criminal penalties of up to five years in prison if they register an applicant who lacks the required paperwork — even if that applicant is, in fact, a United States citizen. It would also allow private individuals to sue election workers under the same circumstances. This is a chilling and punitive measure that will make it harder to recruit and retain the dedicated public servants who administer our elections.

The bill further requires that every state submit its unredacted voter registration list to the Department of Homeland Security, with no restrictions on how that sensitive personal data may subsequently be used. This is an unprecedented federal intrusion into state election administration and an open invitation to abuse.

The timing alone should give you pause. Implementing sweeping changes to voter registration rules in the months immediately preceding the 2026 midterm elections is a recipe for administrative chaos, voter confusion, and disenfranchisement on a massive scale. The Bipartisan Policy Center has explicitly recommended against major election-rule changes in an election year for precisely these reasons.

Senator, our democracy is strongest when every eligible citizen can participate freely and without unnecessary obstruction. The SAVE Act does not protect our elections — it undermines them by suppressing the votes of millions of lawful Americans to address a problem that barely exists. I respectfully but firmly urge you to vote NO on this legislation.

Respectfully,

Paul

Florida Resident

========= Sent as follow up ========

The SAVE act is not only unnecessary due to almost no voter fraud in US Elections, the documentation requirements are also not necessary as the government has resources already available to verify citizenship status of at least 90% of all Americans.

This is a solution in search of a problem that does not exist.

The obvious solution is to use EVVE to verify voters, then automaticlly registere every citizen effective on their 18th birthday.

Prior attempts at verification resulted in denying the vote to far more citizens than preventing unregistered voting.

In Kansas (struck down) the illegal voters amounted to 0.002% but disenfranchised 12% of eligible citizens right to vote.

Relevance to the SAVE Act

EVVE directly undermines the core justification for the SAVE Act’s burdensome document-production requirements. If election agencies were granted authorized access to EVVE, they could electronically verify U.S. birth records in real time — without requiring voters to physically produce passports, birth certificates, or other hard-to-obtain documents at a registration office.

The existence of EVVE demonstrates that if Congress were genuinely concerned about verifying citizenship for voter registration purposes, a far less burdensome electronic solution already exists. The SAVE Act’s insistence on physical document production — rather than leveraging existing federal infrastructure like EVVE — suggests the bill’s true purpose is reducing voter registration, not protecting election integrity.

https://www.naphsis.org/evve/ provides a system to query Secure Identity Verification from the Official Source

Source: NAPHSIS (National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems) — naphsis.org/evve