Action needed: The fight against the SAVE Act comes to a head this week

  

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This week, Donald Trump's biggest allies in the U.S. Senate are making their push to pass the SAVE Act, despite the inevitable filibuster from Democrats. Sign and send a letter to your members of U.S. senators opposing the SAVE Act, which would impose significant new documentation requirements when registering to vote. Additionally, in its current form, the SAVE Act would all but eliminate mail-in voting. SIGN AND SEND (Note: Sending these letters may result in receiving emails from allied Democratic and progressive organizations. For frequently asked questions about letter campaigns such as these, please see the notes below this email.) According to The Hill, this is the big week for the fight over the SAVE Act in the U.S. Senate: President Trump’s allies are planning to take over the Senate floor this week in a bid to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, setting up a major test for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who is under pressure from Trump and the MAGA base to extend the debate over voting reform for as long as possible. GOP senators are playing their cards close to the vest ahead of this week’s marathon debate over the SAVE America Act, which would require people registering to vote to show documented proof of citizenship. The plan, as near as I can tell, is for Republicans to hold the floor of the chamber for as long as possible, and block all other business, until the SAVE Act passes. Fortunately, they are highly unlikely to succeed. The basic problem faced by Donald Trump and his hardest core supporters when it comes to the SAVE Act is two-fold: Current Senate rules require the bill to have 60 votes to pass, and the SAVE Act lacks that. The current rules of the United States Senate require that any bill such as the SAVE Act must receive 60 votes in order to pass. However, Republicans only have 53 senators, and no Democrats or Independents support the bill. Even Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has pulled his support as Republicans have changed the bill so that it severely restricts mail-in voting. Changing Senate rules requires 51 votes, and Republicans lack that. The rules of the United States Senate can be changed with only a simple majority of 51 votes. However, Republicans are "not even close" to having the votes to change the rules. As Senate Majority Leader John Thune said last week: “The votes aren’t there, one, to nuke the filibuster and the votes aren’t there for a talking filibuster. It’s just a reality,” Thune said last week. “I’m the person who has to deliver sometimes the not-so-good news that the math doesn’t add up, but those are the facts and there’s no getting around it.” So, we will have to see how long Trump and the hardest core supporters of the SAVE Act are willing to hold up congressional business before they eventually bow to the reality that this bill simply is not going to pass. As this fight unfolds this week, it would be very helpful if senators were hearing from their constituents who are opposed to the SAVE Act, and indeed to any attempts to make it more difficult for Americans to exercise their right to vote. If you would like more information about what the SAVE Act is and why it is a bad idea, I recommend this explainer from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Sign and send a letter to your members of U.S. senators opposing the SAVE Act, which would impose significant new documentation requirements when registering to vote. 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