Messaging Guidance: ACE Act & Ensuring Every Eligible American has the Opportunity to Vote

Topline Messaging Guidance

• The ACE Act would disenfranchise millions of voting by enacting restrictive anti-voter policies that have a disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous, young and new American voters.
• Extremists in Congress are using the boogeyman of “voter fraud” to justify legislation making it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. The truth is voter fraud in U.S. elections is extremely rare.
• Widespread voter fraud doesn’t exist. Strict Voter ID laws create deliberate and unnecessary barriers to the ballot that disproportionately impact Black, Latino, Native American, elderly, and low-income voters. – Indivisible
• Claims of ‘voter fraud’ are a racist dog-whistle used to invalidate the voices of Black, brown, and indigenous voters. – MSNBC

Additional Talking Points

• State Examples: Despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Florida and Texas have empowered ‘election police’ to punish mostly Black voters for honest mistakes or confusion about eligibility. This is state-sanctioned voter intimidation, meant to scare eligible voters from participating in our elections.  – Brennan Center 
• Our freedom to vote is under attack by extremist legislators, who have introduced over 332 anti-voter bills in at least 45 states since 2020  to make it harder to vote, especially for voters of color. Now, extremists in Congress are pushing these policies at the federal level, and disguising it as a bill that would strengthen U.S. elections