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AFL is asking the EAC to start a new ruling making process to amend federal rule 11 C.F.R. 搂 9428.4, which provides the details of the content of the federal voter registration form. AFL is asking the EAC to add a requirement that any time an individual registers to vote or provides an update to their current registration, they provide an actual copy of their passport or one of a few other limited U.S. citizenship documents with their registration form.

This is the same kind of show your papers request that President Trump has tried to impose through his Executive Order 14,248 (Trump鈥檚 EO) and that is pending in Congress with the SAVE Act, Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 22, 119th Cong. (2025), https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text. We have successfully stopped implementation of this provision of Trump鈥檚 EO, see League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President (鈥淟ULAC鈥�), 780 F. Supp. 3d 135, 225 (D.D.C. 2025), and the SAVE Act has not yet made its way through Congress. Given that these approaches have failed, the opponents of voting rights and increases to voter registration are trying this new tactic.

The EAC is considering this request to change the requirements of the federal form, and asked for public comments by October 20, 2025. The 红杏视频 and partners submitted robust a comment explaining the reasons why the EAC should deny this request, and should not make any changes to the current format of the federal voter registration form. We also worked with partners and members of the 红杏视频 to generate comments in opposition. When the time period for submitting comments closed, there were approximately 383,153 comments. We hope most of these expressed opposition to this proposal.

Changes to the federal voter registration form to require that voters to provide documents proving their citizenship are completely unnecessary. All registration forms for voting in federal elections, including the federal voter registration form, require voters to both check a box that they are a citizen of the U.S. and to sign under oath with a penalty of perjury that they are a U.S. citizen. Moreover, non-U.S. citizens are prohibited by federal law from register to vote or cast a ballot in federal elections. It鈥檚 an existing crime that is punishable by up to five years in prison. When Congress enacted the NVRA with bi-partisan support in 1993, it determined that this positive affirmation of citizenship along with the significant penalties for violating the federal law are sufficient.

This current process has been working鈥攖he evidence is overwhelmingly clear that the instances of non-citizens voting are exceedingly rare. However, if an additional documentary proof of citizenship requirement is imposed, the impact on the ability of eligible U.S. Citizens to register and vote would be significant. Tens of millions of citizens do not possess or have easy access to the documentation that would be required under this proposal. And there would be a highly discriminatory impact on voters because naturalized citizens, voters with low incomes, voters of color, Native American voters, rural voters, and first-time voters are less likely to have the required documentation.

Having submitted comments, we now need to wait for the EAC鈥檚 response in the next few months.