In case you missed it, last week, Shontel Brown voted against the SAVE Act. This radical and reckless legislation would restrict voting rights for millions of eligible American citizens and create new burdens and costs on military voters, married women, minority voters, veterans, and others. As a reminder, the SAVE Act is entirely unnecessary because it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote.
The SAVE Act requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. That means for most, a driver’s license would not be enough, and folks will need either a passport or a birth certificate to register. However, over 140 million Americans do NOT have a passport, and, according to the Center for American Progress analysis, over 2.6 million women in Ohio do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name.
The SAVE Act is a propaganda bill that creates problems instead of solving them. It is intended to make it harder to vote and feed Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Shontel Brown is proud to be elected as the Congresswoman for Ohio’s 11th District. She has spent the last decade serving the people of Ohio and building coalitions. As she enters her second full term in Congress, she will use that experience to continue the fight for affordable quality health care, jobs that pay fair wages, a strong public education system, and to preserve and protect our democracy for generations to come. Will you join her and be the change we need?
