Sample Messages Against the SAVE Act for Your Network
Activate the nonprofits in your network and invite them to take action against the SAVE Act.
And if you haven’t reached out to your own US Senators yet, go here to send a letter!
Below are two template email alerts you can adapt and send to your network
Version 1: Explainer + template
We’re sending you this email in the hopes that you’ll take 2 minutes to contact your Senator today to tell them to vote NO on the SAVE America Act, a restrictive bill that could seriously limit voter access and the ability for nonpartisan nonprofits to help constituents participate in democracy.
Dear partners,
You may remember the SAVE Act from last Congress. A new version has now been reintroduced, and it is once again moving through Congress. It passed in the House of Representatives on February 11, 2026 by a vote of 218-213. The impact of this bill if it passes the Senate and becomes codified could be just as serious for voter access as it is for the nonprofits that help people participate in our democracy.
The 2026 Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act (SAVE America Act, H.R. 7296) would require documentary proof of United States citizenship when someone registers to vote or updates their registration. This would replace the current process, which relies on a sworn attestation of citizenship under penalty of perjury, a system that has been in place for decades.
According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, non-citizen voting is already extremely rare, and existing federal law already makes it illegal. Despite that, the SAVE Act would add a new paperwork requirement that many eligible citizens are not prepared to meet, including access to a passport, birth certificate, or other limited forms of documentation.
The Brennan Center for Justice warns that this kind of documentary proof requirement would block millions of eligible Americans from registering to vote. More than 21 million citizens lack ready access to proof of citizenship, and the burden would fall especially hard on women whose names do not match their birth certificates, young voters, voters of color, and people with lower incomes. Election officials would also face new administrative burdens and legal risks.
The Fair Elections Center has also raised concerns about how the SAVE Act would affect voter registration systems. Requiring proof of citizenship would make online and mail registration far more difficult and would significantly limit community-based voter registration efforts, since most people do not carry citizenship documents with them when engaging with nonprofits at events or in the community.
This new version of the SAVE Act has already passed the House of Representatives and is now pending in the U.S. Senate. It is not law yet, but this is a critical moment to speak up.
What you can do
💬 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act by sending a letter today.
Nonprofit VOTE has made it easy – take 2 minutes and send a letter to your Senators. There’s already included template text for you to use!
Let’s make it easier, not harder for eligible citizens to participate and for our nonprofits to engage and invite people into the civic process. Protect our democratic values now!
Learn more: https://www.nonprofitvote.org/reject-save-act/
Version 2: Shorter template
We’re sending you this email in the hopes that you’ll take 2 minutes to contact your Senator today to tell them to vote NO on the SAVE America Act, a restrictive bill that could seriously limit voter access and the ability for nonpartisan nonprofits to help constituents participate in democracy.
Hi friends,
A new version of the SAVE Act has just passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 218-213 in Congress, and it would once again change how people register to vote in federal elections.
The 2026 Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act (SAVE America Act, H.R. 7296) would require documentary proof of United States citizenship when someone registers to vote or updates their registration. This replaces the current system, which relies on a signed statement under penalty of perjury. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, this requirement could block 21 million eligible citizens from registering because many do not have easy access to documents like passports or birth certificates.
Proponents say the SAVE Act is about preventing non-citizen voting, but it’s a trick. We already have laws against that and instances of actual non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare. Instead, the SAVE Act effectively ends all nonprofit-led voter registration drives, ends online and mail-in registration by forcing voters to go in person to election offices, and disenfranchises tens of millions of eligible voters who either don’t have ready access to birth certificates or passports, or can’t easily get to an actual elections office.
The bill has already passed the House and is currently sitting in the Senate! The time to act is now!
💬 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act by sending a letter today.
LEARN MORE: https://www.nonprofitvote.org/reject-save-act/
