NPR has a good explainer on the SAVE Act.

Backers of the SAVE Act say requiring voters to show citizenship documents is necessary to protect election integrity — though they have yet to provide evidence that instances of illegal voting by noncitizens are anything but incredibly rare.

"They are trying to take something that we all agree on — that only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections — and use that to make it harder for millions of eligible citizens to cast their vote," Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a video denouncing the bill.

Secretary of State Benson has been a good steward of voting rights in Michigan, and I'm glad to have her on our side. Call your representatives now and tell them NO. If you hate talking to a person on the phone, call after hours and leave a message—just make sure to leave your address so they can verify you're a constituent. Even if your representatives in Congress are the most spineless of Republican fascists, calling them to register your disapproval makes a difference.

Most documented instances of intentional voter fraud (as opposed to several cases in Florida where the state mismanaged the system) are from people trying to demonstrate that it's possible.^[1] In general, people don't want to risk the large penalties, and there certainly aren't billionaires other than Elon Musk^[2] trying to pay people to vote.

The naked purpose of the SAVE Act is to make it harder for people to vote. Those people will be disproportionately women, people of color, trans people, and poor people. That's the entire goal: to prevent those the Republicans consider to be undesirable from voting. And if the right to vote can be taken away from one class of people, it can be taken away from any class they deem inconvenient, until it's just Elon Musk deciding who gets to be his figurehead.

Call now. Protect your right to have a say.