Your 'WTF Is Happening' Guide to the SAVE Act, a GOP Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions of Women Voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The House passed the SAVE Act for the first time in July.
52% : This is obviously not the reality, yet it's the entire basis for the SAVE Act.
51% : " Which voters are targeted under the SAVE Act?
51% : SAVE Act just passed House.
51% : Now, the Senate will vote on the SAVE Act again on an unspecified date, and it will require 60 votes to pass -- thankfully, that's a steep requirement for Republicans, who hold only a narrow majority.
50% : In September, New Hampshire enacted new voting laws that closely reflect the SAVE Act by requiring physical documentation to prove citizenship -- and it's already disproportionately impacted women.
50% : " Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee who took a leading role in House Democrats' investigation of the events of Jan. 6, also warned that the SAVE Act would specifically target "tens of millions of... mostly women, who change their names after marriage.
49% : "I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans.
48% : Since Trump's Big Lie in 2020, Republican-controlled state legislatures have aggressively clamped down on voting rights, pushing complicated voter ID laws or, in states like Georgia and Texas, attempting to restrict volunteers from handing out water to people waiting in long lines to vote.
47% : On Thursday, the GOP-controlled House passed the SAVE Act, or the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill to impose sweeping, wholly unnecessary voter registration requirements with the potential to keep millions of people from voting.
47% : As Molly McGrath, director of the ACLU's national voting rights campaigns, put it in a statement calling on the Senate to block the SAVE Act, "This isn't about protecting voters or our elections, it's about politicians who want to protect themselves and pick and choose their voters.
47% : During and after the 2020 election, President Trump also set out to demonize vote by mail and the standard, legally required practice of counting ballots that arrive after Election Day, so long as they were mailed by Election Day.
44% : Alarmingly, the SAVE Act would ban this practice, a move that has the potential to disregard millions of votes that will disproportionately come from working people who vote by mail because they don't have the time, resources, or physical ability to vote in person.
36% : However, the executive branch doesn't have sweeping authority over how states carry out elections, so the constitutionality of Trump's order is shaky at best, which is why the GOP is now pushing the SAVE Act.
33% : Five years ago, rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 because Trump and Republicans lied to their base that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, and that elections in the U.S., broadly, are plagued by rampant fraud and illegal voters.
31% : Total disaster in every way [image or embed] -- Ari Berman (@ariberman.bsky.social) April 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM Could the SAVE Act stop married women from voting?
24% : President Trump has vocally endorsed the bill and, in March, while continuing to spread the lie that voter fraud is rampant (it's not), he signed an executive order requiring the presentation of documents proving citizenship to vote.
10% : After months of stripping the federal government for parts, attacking Medicaid and Social Security, tanking the economy, and throwing the lives of Republican and Democratic voters alike into chaos, President Trump and the GOP are clearly concerned about their rapidly waning electoral popularity.

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