Sen. Thom Tillis: We Don’t Have The Votes Or The Time To Implement The SAVE Act Before The Election
North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis comments on the president’s insistence that Senate Republicans pass the “SAVE Act” implementing voter ID in time for the November election. He tells CBS News it’s impossible.
CBS REPORTER: What’s your objection with the SAVE Act? SEN. THOM TILLIS: It’s quite simple. It’s a math problem. We simply don’t have the votes, and the SAVE Act will not be implemented in time for this election. Anybody that knows anything about election law understands that. And the reason I do is I passed voter ID when I was speaker of the House. And if anybody thinks that you’re going to implement something as expansive as the SAVE Act in two months – see, everybody’s coming out in November, right? That’s five months away, but people will be doing some early voting. People will have to deal with registrations. Does any rational person who’s ever had any experience with implementing election law really think that it’s possible to have all that in place in time for this election and not be disruptive? And incidentally, it’s an unfunded mandate that has zero dollars for implementation. So I would ask anybody who actually understands how to pass laws, implement them, and have them in place at the level that they need to be to ensure the integrity of elections: How absurd is it to think that could be done by November?
