Afflicted With TDS, Four Senators Kill Election IntegrityWhy Murkowski, McConnell, Collins, and Tillis sided against a popular voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship bill.
ast Thursday, even as California’s chaotic primaries demonstrated the need for a nationwide election integrity law, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted to kill the SAVE America Act. This would be understandable if the bill were unpopular with the electorate. But its requirement that voters in every state must provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote and produce a photo ID when casting a ballot are wildly popular among Republicans and Democrats. Yet, because its passage is one of President Trump’s top priorities, TDS forced them to ignore his agenda and that of the voters.
In reality, not one of this querulous quartet of Senators voted against the SAVE America Act based on genuine principles or the will of the people.
The only member of this cadre of recalcitrant Republicans with a rational excuse, other than TDS, to vote against the SAVE America Act is Maine Sen. Susan Collins. She is involved in a tough reelection campaign and had she voted for the bill her depraved Democrat opponent, “oysterman” Graham Platner, would no doubt use that vote to bolster the ridiculous claim that she is a rubber stamp for Trump. According to a bulletin published by the Maine Democratic Party, “FiveThirtyEight found that she voted with Trump 67 percent of the time during his first term.” North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has no rational excuse for his vote against the SAVE America Act. In a statement issued after the first of his two votes against the bill he said,
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