SAVE America Act Alaska backlash
Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces backlash from her own Alaska residents who reject her claims that the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise voters or complicate elections there. Locals say she is treating citizens as pawns by fighting the bill, insisting it wouldn't impact anybody since they are US citizens capable of proving identity. The House of Representatives already passed the Save America Act to keep voting easy and cheating hard, a standard every nation from Mexico to Brazil uses. Supporters argue this protects vote dignity without leaving power for foreign actors to exploit. The demand is clear: pass the SAVE America Act with no compromise and primary Murkowski in 2028!
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Mr. President, our elections need to be characterized by two things. We need to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. And we need to do that by making sure that people establish their citizenship and therefore their eligibility to vote when they register and that they show who they are when they show up on election day. This isn't hard. This isn't unusual. Every country in the entire world, countries you're familiar with, countries you're not. Countries as wide-ranging as Mexico, Brazil, India, Argentina, Peru, Botswana, Burundi, they all have voter ID requirements. We do not. We do not want to leave this amount of power sitting on the table so that foreign powers can send forth people who are not eligible to vote in this country and vote anyway. We need to do this. The House of Representatives has passed the Save America Act. We now have the opportunity to vote on that same bill, The Save America Act here. This bill, Mr. President, will disenfranchise no one. It will make us all more free. It will protect the sanctity, the dignity of your vote. When we allow people who are not allowed to vote, to vote, we rob Americans of their vote. Let's make it easy to vote, hard to cheat. Let's pass this bill.
