MAGA Republicans are Pushing the New and Worse SAVE Act 2.0 to Suppress Voters

Washington, D.C. — Ahead of today’s votes on the House Republican-led voter suppression legislation, the SAVE America Act, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) issued the following statement from Senior Director of Judiciary and Democracy Doug Lindner:

“MAGA Republicans are determined to do Trump’s bidding to keep voters from exercising our fundamental rights by pushing new and worse versions of their sweeping voter suppression bill, the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act 2.0 represents an unprecedented attack on the people’s freedom to choose our elected leaders and would be the biggest federal voting rights rollback in American history. This MAGA effort would imperil online voter registration, mail voter registration, and voter registration drives. It would make voter registration harder for the 146 million Americans without passports, 69 million married women whose birth certificates don’t show their current names, and 21 million who can’t easily access either. 

With midterm elections approaching, Trump and his loyal allies in Congress want to take away power from everyday people and put it in the hands of their billionaire and Big Polluter friends by making voting harder for millions of eligible American voters. Congress must reject this clear attempt to suppress and intimidate voters, and all MAGA efforts to interfere in our right to free and fair elections, including the SAVE, SAVE America, and MEGA Acts.”

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