Patty Murray caught lying about the SAVE America Act

Washington Senator Patty Murray is counting on you not reading the SAVE America Act. But Utah Senator Mike Lee isn’t letting her get away with her lies.

Murray posted a viral list of voters she claims the SAVE America Act will harm: married women who changed their names, college students, and seniors with mobility issues. She included a warning the legislation will make voting “HARDER and more EXPENSIVE.” But Lee called this a “lie” and he’s right. It’s written to give off the impression that these demographics are being targeted, which they’re not.

This is a lie pic.twitter.com/R1nvfy9EHl

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 18, 2026

Literally every Murray claim is false

To see Murray is flat out lying, one need just read the actual bill. It’s not particularly long.

On married women with name changes: Murray implies a name mismatch between a birth certificate and a current ID will disqualify someone from registering, forcing them to engage in some kind of Herculean effort to register. What the bill actually says in Section 2(B) — the new Section 8(j)(2)(B) it adds to the National Voter Registration Act — is that each state must establish a process “under which an applicant can provide such additional documentation…as may be necessary to establish that the applicant is a citizen of the United States in the event of a discrepancy.” A name change is precisely the kind of discrepancy this provision addresses. The bill anticipates this scenario and mandates a resolution process.

On students who moved away to college: Murray’s framing only stings for students registering for the first time or re-registering in a new state. But for any student already on the rolls before enactment, Section 2(q) is explicit. The documentary proof requirement “shall apply with respect to applications for voter registration which are submitted on or after” enactment. Existing registrations are untouched. And for new registrants, a passport or birth certificate paired with any government-issued photo ID satisfies the requirement under Section 2(a)(5).

On seniors with mobility issues: The same Section 2(q) grandfathering applies — lifelong registered voters don’t re-register under this bill, period. For the in-person documentary proof requirement attached to mail registration, Section 2(d)(3) mandates that each state, in consultation with the Election Assistance Commission, “ensure that reasonable accommodations are made to allow an individual with a disability” to present their documents. The accommodation requirement is written into the bill.

Democrats are lying about their cost concern

Murray claims the bill makes voting expensive, though the SAVE America Act doesn’t impose a single fee on voters. It explicitly prohibits federal agencies from charging states for citizenship data requests under Section 2(f). If Murray’s argument is that obtaining a passport costs money, that’s true — but that’s not the bill’s doing, and a birth certificate paired with an existing ID is a no-cost option for most Americans.

But let’s talk expensive and cumbersome, shall we Patty?

Murray and her Democratic colleagues have spent decades enthusiastically piling fees, waiting periods, background checks, licensing requirements, and bureaucratic hoops onto the purchase of a firearm. That is a right explicitly guaranteed by the Second Amendment. In Washington State alone, purchasing a handgun now requires a mandatory waiting period and an enhanced background check that can take weeks. The costs of compliance, including fees, training requirements, transfer costs, run into hundreds of dollars for law-abiding citizens exercising a constitutional right. Murray never loses sleep over that burden. The moment Democrats are asked to apply even a fraction of that logic to verifying who participates in elections, suddenly the cost of a document is a civil rights crisis. The selective outrage is the tell. Though at least she and others stopped with their condescending and racist claim that black voters don’t have IDs because they can’t figure out the process.

Murray’s post is engineered for outrage, not accuracy. The bill she’s describing doesn’t exist.

If you are a:
– married woman that changed your last name,
– student that moved away to college,
– lifelong voter with mobility issues,

Republicans’ SAVE Act will make it HARDER & more EXPENSIVE for you to vote.

Democrats will be fighting to keep our elections fair & FREE.

— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) March 16, 2026

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