The SAVE America Act Is the Most Popular Election Reform in Decades – The White House

President Donald J. Trump is urgently calling on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act immediately and safeguard America’s elections from illegal voting. The legislation includes straightforward protections to safeguard America’s elections and enjoys overwhelming bipartisan support — except from Radical Left Democrats in Washington who are putting their own political power above the will of the people.

FACT: Voter ID requirements are extremely popular with the American people.

• The bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter, noted that “IDs currently are needed to board a plane, enter federal buildings, and cash a check. Voting is equally important.”
• Charles Stewart, Founder and Director of the MIT Election Lab: “Regardless of how you poll, voters like a requirement for photo ID… I mean it’s kind of a no-brainer for a large swath of the American public … including most Democrats.”
• Harvard CAPS/Harris: 81% of Americans favor voter ID, including 79% of independents and 70% of Democrats.
• Pew Research Center: 83% of Americans — including wide majorities of Democrats, independents, Whites, Blacks, and Latinos — favor voter ID requirements.
• Gallup: 84% support voter ID, with 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats on board — while an equally robust 83% back proof of citizenship for voter registration.
• Rasmussen Reports: 75% support voter ID, with support increasing over the past decade.
• Additional surveys, including from Napolitan News Service and The Center Square, consistently reveal extraordinary bipartisan support for voter ID.

FACT: Voter ID laws have no measurable negative effect on turnout.

• Following Georgia’s 2021 voter ID law, the state achieved record turnout in both the 2022 and 2024 elections.
• A 2021 review by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyzing a decade of data, determined voter ID laws “have no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation.”
• A 2014 study in the Election Law Journal found “little support for the hypothesis that notification of ID requirements depresses turnout.”
• A 2023 report by the America First Policy Institute stated voter ID laws are “not a significant cause for decreased turnout” and “do not negatively affect minority or demographic-specific turnout,” noting that several states (and entire countries) with photo ID laws actually had higher turnout than those without.
• A 2009 study in PS: Political Science & Politics concluded voter ID laws “have not had a significant impact on voting” and show “little to no effect on aggregate or individual-level turnout.”
• A 2006 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found “[i]t is hard to see any evidence that voting regulations differentially harm either minorities, the elderly, or the poor,” and that “[r]egulations that prevent fraud are shown to actually increase the voter participation rate.”
• A 2007 analysis by the Heritage Foundation found that “voter identification requirements, such as requiring non-photo and photo identification, have virtually no suppressive effect on reported voter turnout.”

FACT: Voting by mail increases the risk of fraud.

• The Commission on Federal Election Reform warned that voting by mail is “likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections,” that “absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud,” and that “vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.”
• A 2012 New York Times investigation revealed that “votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth.”
• In 2024, the House Republican Policy Committee found that mass mail-in voting “increases opportunities for error in fraud in states that do not maintain clean voter rolls” and “brings about an inherent set of risks that jeopardize the integrity of American elections and create absurdities that dampen faith in our electoral system.”
• MIT Election Data + Science Lab: “[E]ven many scholars who argue that fraud is generally rare agree that fraud with [voting by mail] voting seems to be more frequent than with in-person voting.”
• A 2023 Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll found that 21% of mail-in-voters admitted to at least one form of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
• A 2020 report by the Heritage Foundation described widespread absentee and early voting as “vulnerable to being misdirected, stolen, forged, and altered,” with voters susceptible to intimidation, unlawful assistance, or pressure from campaigns and activists.
• In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, citing absentee ballot fraud in an Indiana primary, affirmed that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”

FACT: Proving citizenship to vote is a no-brainer.

• 85% of Americans agree that only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections and three quarters support proof of citizenship to vote.
• Commission on Federal Election Reform: “The right to vote is a vital component of U.S. citizenship, and all states should use their best efforts to obtain proof of citizenship before registering voters.”

FACT: Americans overwhelmingly support the SAVE America Act.

• Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll: 71% support the SAVE America Act — including 69% of independents and half of rank-and-file Democrats.
  • 80% want states to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.
  • 60% call the SAVE America Act a “commonsense way to stop fraud and protect the security of our elections.”
  • 58% recognize at least some voter fraud exists in the U.S.