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I urge Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Jared Golden not to vote for the SAVE Act. They should consider these questions before they vote.
What are you going to put in place to assist citizens who do not have all the newly required documents to be able to vote? Maine is filled with women, who took their husband’s last name, who don’t have the time or money to chase down their birth certificate and get to a now non-functioning Social Security office to get the newly required documentation to “prove” they are citizens.
How can you support severe punishments for our election workers if they let someone vote without the newly required documentation, even if they are known to the election worker? Who will risk being an election worker? Voting day is a joyful occasion with the friendly, known election workers in our towns. Why would you vote to change that?
Where exactly are the safe guards you claim are in the bill that ensure every citizen can indeed register easily?
I believe this is a voter suppression bill to keep women and those without time or extra money from voting. Voter fraud has not been proven to have changed an election result in Maine or in the country. Please do not vote to keep women and those without the ease of money and time from voting.
Joyce Schelling
Orland