Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has misread the SAVE America Act. In her Wall Street Journal op-ed laying out her opposition to the legislation, she repeatedly misstates what the bill requires, overlooks safeguards written directly into its text, and presents speculative worst-case scenarios as inevitable consequences. Her misbegotten criticism rests on several fundamental misreadings of the legislation and is just as wrong as the critics of “Seward’s Folly.”
Murkowski offers four straw man (and a straw woman) objections: Remote Alaskans would have no option but costly travel to register; women whose names have changed will have to wait months for certified records just to register; Alaskans using tribal IDs will have a hard time registering; and election workers will end up in court as personal defendants in lawsuits.
