The late Senator Lindsey Graham was not a movement conservative, often we took him to task for his decidedly non-conservative positions and votes, such as his one-time advocacy of amnesty for illegal aliens. But one thing he got right was his unwavering support for the SAVE America Act and election integrity.
During the Senate’s recent “vote-a-rama” on the reconciliation bill, principled limited government constitutional conservative Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah offered the House-passed version of the SAVE America Act election integrity bill as an amendment to the reconciliation bill.
With Sen. Graham’s support, Senator Lee’s amendment garnered 51 votes, later pared-back to 50 votes when RINO Senator Thom Tillis switched his vote, versus 49 against, meaning it received the necessary simple majority necessary to pass. And it would be in the bill, but for Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s seditious refusal to require Democrats to actually engage in a talking filibuster to stop it.
So, once more the SAVE America Act died on the Senate Floor, killed by a Democrat Zombie Filibuster and Thune’s feckless refusal to actually fight the Democrats on an issue that is supported by around 80% of voters.
Sen. Lindsey Graham was a cosponsor of the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, an updated version of an earlier GOP-backed voting measure that would impose new federal voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.
"Requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID in federal elections is eminently reasonable, and I greatly appreciate Senator Mike Lee for leading this effort," Graham said in a statement. "I was proud to cosponsor the original SAVE Act, and I'm proud to cosponsor the expanded version, the SAVE America Act."
“Free, fair and secure elections are the bedrock of our republic. However, Democrat-led states across the country have failed to enact common-sense election integrity measures to combat fraud and cheating,” said Senator Lindsey Graham in a statement.
““After millions of illegal aliens invaded our country during the Biden years, Americans want to know that only U.S. citizens are voting in our elections,” Senator Graham further remarked.
“What we do know is that in states that have started reviewing the voter registration files in order to weed out those [ineligible people] who might have registered, perhaps inadvertently… already there have been thousands of voter registration files identified in just the handful of states doing their own reviews,” Lee said.
Senator Mike Lee also noted that Democratic-led states are not reviewing their voter files and “refusing even to share their voter registration files with federal officials … which begs the question, why?”
The SAVE America Act is about three simple, common-sense protections:
- Proof of citizenship to register to vote
- Voter ID to cast a ballot
- Clean, accurate voter rolls
That’s it. Fair. Secure. Transparent. And yet—it’s being blocked. The tipping point comes when the pressure is too strong to ignore. When citizens across the country speak with one voice and demand action.
"Common sense requirements to prove your eligibility to vote in federal elections are not Jim Crow 2.0," the late Sen. Lindsey Graham once explained. "Every time we try to bring rationality to the debate around illegal immigration, the Democrats let the radical, left-wing nut jobs take over for them, but they won't for us."
We urge all CHQ readers and friends to share this important information widely. Forward this message to your family, friends, neighbors, church and civic club mailing lists and encourage them to call their Senators TODAY. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121, enlist everyone you know to "up the pressure" on the Senate to honor Sen. Lindsey Graham by passing the SAVE America Act.
