Mississippi: SHIELD Act (Citizenship Checks Law)
The new law creates an onerous and unfair citizenship checks process for Mississippi that could create barriers for many eligible citizens to register and stay on the voter rolls.
Louisiana: Requiring Use of SAVE System for List Maintenance
Louisiana HB 691 would require the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office to compare the state’s voter rolls annually to DHS’s inaccurate and unreliable SAVE system for voter list maintenance.
Leadership in Congress Redoubles Efforts to Pass SAVE Act Legislation: Factsheet
Leadership in Congress is trying to pass legislation that would stop millions of eligible Americans from having their votes counted.
Florida SAVE Act
Florida SB 1334/HB 991 is Florida’s SAVE Act – and like the federal bill of the same name, it won’t save anything. These bills would hurt election integrity by stopping tens of thousands of Florida voters who can’t get past red-tape show-your-papers requirements from having their voices heard at the ballot box.
Letter to North Carolina State Board of Elections Regarding Use of SAVE System for List Maintenance
In November 2025, the North Carolina State Board of Elections made the decision to compare North Carolina’s voter registration records with the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements System (SAVE). On December 16, Fair Elections Center sent a letter to the board to inform them of recent changes made to the SAVE system that have introduced […]
Louisiana Intimidation of Naturalized Voters
HB 554 would intimidate naturalized Louisiana voters and make it harder for many of them to vote.
Ohio SAVE Act
OH SB 153/HB 233 would require documentary proof of citizenship, along with other sweeping changes to election code like banning the use of drop boxes and requiring multiple forms of identification to match your voter registration. The bill would also drastically change the process for citizen-led ballot initiatives.
SAVE Act (2025)
Fair Elections Center opposes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require every American to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register or re-register to vote. Requiring oftentimes hard-to-get and expensive documents make it harder for citizens to vote, and doesn’t solve any problems with our elections. Recent studies show that around ten percent of voting-eligible Americans do not have documents to show their citizenship. Those citizens are more likely to be women, low income people, and from communities of color.
Virginia Voter Registration Errors
Letter to the Virginia Commissioner of Elections to Ensure Administrative Processing Errors at the Commonwealth Department of Motor Vehicles do Not Interfere With Virginians’ Right to Register and Update their Voter Registration Information (2022)
Florida Anti-Voter Bill
Letter to the Florida Senate Committee on Appropriations in opposition to SB 524, which would make elections less accessible and less efficient (2022)