On January 29th, 2026, House Republicans introduced yet another bill aimed at disenfranchising voters under the guise of preventing nonexist
So the SAVE Act stalled in the Senate (because of Dems), which means some asshole Republicans made a different, even worse version, and called it MEGA because they are pathetic MAGA tools.
The SAVE Act was supposedly about voter fraud (except all evidence points to voter fraud being extreeeemely rare (and recently, seems to be all Republican but anyway) but included language that basically means anyone who has changed their name from what is on their birth certificate will have a lot more steps required to vote.
Back in my day, we called that a poll tax. Because it places an undue financial burden on certain members of the population in order to vote.
Women who changed their names when they got married, trans people, people avoiding stalkers, etc, would all now need more paperwork to vote. (Amazing how it doesn't really affect most cis, straight guys.)
This is not about voter fraud. It's the Christian Nationalist agenda again.
Once again, my lovelies. stay on their necks.
Also, a lot of Republicans are sexist but they do know women do vote for them, right? wtf?
Anyway, yeah there are gonna be midterm elections, but they don't want us voting in them. Keep fighting!
The SAVE Act (H.R. 22 / S.128) is an extreme anti-voter bill they're trying to pass by claiming it's for "election integrity."
It would require citizens to present documentary proof of citizenship like a birth certificate or passport in person just to register to vote--even though millions of eligible Americans do not have easy access to these documents.
69 million women who have taken their spouse’s last name do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name.
Similarly, transgender people who change their name to reflect their gender identity may be denied updated passports and be ineligible to register under these rules. For many disabled people, traveling to an office to register in person is difficult or impossible. The SAVE Act will shut real voters out of our democracy.
Use the 5 Calls script to tell your members of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act:
Call your reps about the SAVE Act
The MEGA Act ("Make Elections Great Again") goes even further. It would also supersede states’ constitutional authority to administer elections, including forcing states to discard mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day, banning universal vote-by-mail systems, and prohibiting ranked choice voting in federal elections.
This is a direct attack on states’ rights to run their own elections. Supporters of this bill are taking a nonexistent problem (there is absolutely no reputable proof of widespread voter fraud) and using it as an excuse to make it harder to vote and easier for the national government to interfere with state election systems. The MEGA Act would make it harder for younger voters, disabled voters, and Black and Hispanic voters in particular to participate.
Use the 5 Calls script to demand that Congress reject the MEGA Act and any similar voter-suppression bills:
Call your reps about the MEGA Act
Our elections are already secure. what’s at risk now is our right to vote.
Contact your members of Congress today and share these links with friends and family.
The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.
Yunior Rivas at Democracy Docket:
Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level.
The new bill goes far beyond even the SAVE Act, which the House passed last year and which one historian called “the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history.”
It’s being unveiled at a time when GOP anti-voting legislation has been steadily gaining GOP support in the Senate, after a push by President Donald Trump and anti-voting groups.
Introduced by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.), the chair of the House Administration Committee, the proposal is called the Make Elections Great Again Act, or MEGA Act — a name deliberately echoing President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
While the SAVE Act focuses almost exclusively on requiring voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship when registering, the MEGA Act is far more sweeping. It would:
Impose a strict photo ID requirement to vote,
create a centralized voter surveillance system in every state,
mandate constant voter roll purges, gutting the “Motor Voter” law that expanded access to voter registration,
bar states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day,
ban universal mail voting, in which states mail a ballot to all registered voters,
bar the federal funding for voter registration by outside groups,
and unleash lawsuits against election officials — all at once.
The provision requiring photo ID states that election officials “may not provide a ballot for an election for Federal office to an individual who desires to vote in person unless the individual presents to the official a valid physical photo identification,” according to the bill text.
The bill also aggressively targets voter registration itself. It would require states to demand documentary proof of U.S. citizenship before registering anyone to vote in federal elections and to repeatedly re-check the eligibility of people who are already registered.
States would be ordered to take “affirmative steps as are necessary on an ongoing basis, but in no case less frequently than once every 30 days, to verify the eligibility of registrants,” the bill adds.
Those checks would rely heavily on government databases that are known to contain errors, including records related to felony convictions, deaths, address changes and immigration status. If a voter is flagged, the consequences could be immediate and public.
The bill requires states to place people deemed ineligible on “a publicly available list” while they attempt to prove they should not be removed.
But perhaps the most far-reaching provision of the MEGA Act is its mandate that every state create a centralized voter database that would control federal elections. The bill requires “a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list” that would serve as “the official voter registration list for the conduct of all elections for Federal office in the State.”
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Mail voting would be sharply curtailed as well. The MEGA Act abolishes universal vote by mail for federal elections, requiring voters to affirmatively request an absentee ballot before one can be sent.
States that currently mail ballots to all eligible voters — systems that have operated securely for years — would be forced to dismantle them for federal races.
A very restrictive voter suppression and election-rigging bill called the Make Elections Great Again Act (or MEGA Act) is set to be considered in the House. The MEGA Act is the SAVE Act on steroids, as it would bar universal VBM, mandate constant voter roll purges, create a centralized voter surveillance system in every state, and impose a strict photo ID standard.
This bill is all about permitting the GOP to keep power in the House and/or Senate next year akin to Fidesz in Hungary, even though they would likely lose their majorities in least one of the chambers (likely the House).
