March 25, 2026
PHILADELPHIA– In an effort to protect voters in the Commonwealth and beyond, All Voting is Local Action Pennsylvania and a coalition of nonpartisan civic engagement organizations sent a letter to Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman, urging them to reject the unpopular SAVE Act and protect voters across the Commonwealth.
“By requiring proof of citizenship in person, the SAVE America Act would end Pennsylvania’s popular and efficient online voter registration program. Online voter registration is a convenient, safeguarded way for Pennsylvanians to register to vote, update their registration, and check their voting status, and millions of voters have registered or updated their registrations since the program began in 2015,” the letter reads. “This bill would also create new, unnecessary barriers to vote-by-mail in Pennsylvania. Since vote-by-mail became available in Pennsylvania in 2020, tens of millions of ballots have been cast using this popular option. The politicians pushing the SAVE America Act know that making it harder to vote by mail could lead to fewer people voting.”
The letter went on to highlight other impacts of the bill and underscore that conspiracy theories are being used to fuel it in an effort to silence voters.
Background
This legislation has the potential to disenfranchise millions of Pennsylvania voters who don’t have access to a passport or birth certificate, including the nearly three million women in the state who do not have a birth certificate with their current last name on it.
Proponents of this voter elimination act have weaponized lies about how elections are run to justify measures that would harm eligible voters and would create significant, real-world barriers to voting. In Pennsylvania and beyond, this legislation would keep Black, Brown, young, and other historically marginalized voters, as well as voters with disabilities and/or low incomes, from voting.