Call to Action: Voting Rights

ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Contact your U.S. Representative. Ask them to VOTE NO on the SAVE Act. This call to action is active and ongoing as of April 1, 2025.

Background. The SAVE Act (H.R.22) is a dangerous anti-voting rights bill that will prevent millions of US citizens from voting in upcoming elections. The bill would require strict proof of US citizenship in order to register or re-register to vote. While that may sound like a neutral proposal, it is not. It is a trick, and a vote in the House is expected this week.

For millions of US citizens, proof required to show US citizenship is often difficult, time-consuming, and costly. The cost to obtain proof of US citizenship is one issue, as working-class and lower-income Americans may not have the funds or the time to apply for and obtain required documents, including birth records. Name changes that prove you are are the person an your own birth record is another costly and complicated problem, particularly for people who changed their names through marriage. And adopted people for years have faced significant hurdles securing proof of US citizenship through acceptable birth records, particularly when they apply for US passports at the Department of State. Worse, thousands of intercountry adopted people in the US lack sufficient proof of US citizenship and must incur significant costs and time to obtain it. Finally, the SAVE Act is wholly unnecessary—it proposes a harsh solution to a problem that does not exist. It is exceedingly rare for a non-citizen to vote, and it is already against the law.

Contact Your Representative Today

Contact Your Representative Today. If you don’t know who your US Representative is, simply type the name of your state into the Search box below and the representatives for your state will pop up. Still don’t know who your specific representative is? Get that information here.

Then call and contact your representative’s office and ask for a NO VOTE on the SAVE Act. Explain who you are and that the SAVE Act will disenfranchise millions of people of their rights to vote and would disproportionately impact adopted people, particularly intercountry adoptees.

To send a message through email, click on the Go link next to the representative’s contact information. You should receive a contact form that the representative’s office uses (and most forms will ask you to enter your address to verify that you are a constituent). Use that form to provide your opinion on the SAVE Act and why it is important to you as a constituent that your representative VOTE NO on the bill. Make sure you ask your representative to oppose the bill and to let you know their position on the bill.

Don’t remember who your US Representative is? Type the name of your state into the Search box below and all representatives for your state will pop up. Still don’t know who your specific representative is? Get that information here.

U.S. Representatives: Contact Information