Sen. Kennedy on the SAVE Act: ‘We Need to Go Back to Having Election Day, Not Election Month’
“We’ve got to know the results of the election that night or shortly thereafter if it’s close.”
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday and defended the SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID, among other things.
Host Margaret Brennan sounded like a Democrat operative in her line of questioning, per usual.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to go back- you just said you wanted to move forward on what the House just started the process on. That would be a party line- that would be a party line vote. That would be Republicans jamming this thing through, and the SAVE Act, as you know, or even some version of it, is highly partisan, highly controversial. Bigger picture, isn’t it going to hurt faith in our election process if a Republican-only policy to change how elections are run is ramped through 100 days- you know, less than 100 days out from the election?
SEN. KENNEDY: No, in my opinion, for both sides to have credibility in the elections- in our elections, we need to do two things and only two things. Number one, you have to prove you are who you say you are in order to register to vote and to vote. And number two, however you decide to vote, that’s up to the states; we need to go back to having an election day, not an election month. We’ve got to know the results of the election that night or shortly thereafter if it’s close. That to me is what the SAVE Act is all about, and I think we can pass it, and I think we can craft it in a way to survive a Byrd bath.
But we’re not going to know if we don’t try.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Grants, in other words, to states. To incentivize, not requirements for states to take action. That’s your version?
SEN. KENNEDY: Yeah, but that’s not the only thing. I’ve- I’ve been contacted by some really smart people about a way to do it in addition to the grants. I’m not saying it’ll work, but you’re not going to know unless you try.
Watch the exchange below:
🚨 Senator John Kennedy FLIPS THE SCRIPT when CBS’ Margaret Brennan claims the SAVE America Act would “hurt faith” in America’s elections.
Kennedy jumps right in, saying the legislation would do the EXACT opposite!
BRENNAN: “The SAVE Act, as you know, or even some version of… pic.twitter.com/38tRNbjBhK
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Note how Margaret Brennan says Republicans would be ‘jamming this thing through.’
Do you remember anyone in the media using that kind of language during the passage of Obamacare?
I certainly don’t.
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I’m in favor of an election weekend, Friday – Sunday inclusive. 3 days, No mail in ballots allowed. Absentee ballots ok with relevant security restrictions,
Add that all polls close at the exact same time. Not “8pm”across time zones. I mean the same time. No hanky-panky of the eastern states’ influence on whether the west bothers going to the polls.
It should be a single day, preferably either a weekend OR a specially designated public holiday.
What it shouldn’t be is carried out over months and taking yet another month to count the votes.
I suspect the integrity of ALL future elections hangs on the outcome of this years mid terms because if Democrats get anywhere near the levers of power any law regulating elections will NEVER see the light of day.
Make it a national holiday.
Ah, yes.
Another “national holiday” where ordinary citizens see just how little they need most government.
People work which is why I propose multiple days, Otherwise I agree,
And, when those polls closed then the counting starts. As each Precinct completes its count then it indicates that it’s done counting and holds its totals until everyone else is done counting. At the point everyone has indicated they’re done counting then no more ballots are accepted for any reason. Everyone turns in their totals, the totals are added up and you have your result.
There are several people in the media that I would like to “jam things through”.
What I would be jamming and where I would be jamming through I shall leave to the reader to speculate.
“Note how Margaret Brennan says Republicans would be ‘jamming this thing through.’
Do you remember anyone in the media using that kind of language during the passage of Obamacare?
I certainly don’t.”
Yeah. They said Republicans were “obstructing it.”
With obamacare, they definitely didn’t obstruct enough.
Election Day as a National Holiday, Precincts open 24 hours. No mail-in ballots. Absentee ballots allowed for military, medical, and travel. Your state ID is your voter ID, no separate voter registration required. Should be able to vote at any voting precinct in the State with current technology.
Election Day starts at 12:00AM at the eastermost part of the US proper, and ends at 11:59PM at the wesrtenmost point of the US proper.
Counting begins when Election Day begins.
Reporting the count begins AFTER Election Day ends.
The left will never allow this.
Therefore we’ll have to disallow the left.
Personally I’d argue ‘travel’ is insufficient reason to granted an absentee ballot. If someone schedules their ‘travel’ on election day that’s tough cookies b/c they decided to prioritize ‘travel’ above voting. The keys are ID both at registration and voting plus a good faith commitment with follow through to purge the voter rolls of the deceased, the bad/fraudulent and legally insufficient regulations and to prosecute every single instance where any element of elections laws were not adhered to then maximum sentence on conviction.
I’d be ok with an in person early voting regime like.TX uses coupled with the absentee ballot regime Alabama uses where other than traditional military/overseas reasons unless its a sudden medical situation with a Physician letter/voter letter appointing a Spouse/Sibling Adult Child to receive, transport and return ballot (all notarized) submitted with the application for an absentee ballot (doesn’t have to be approved) then there’s no real widespread access absentee ballots.
Margaret Brennan is a pathetic Democrat stooge, a POS. America OVERWHELMINGLY supports the SAVE Act but she claims it’s “highly controversial “? Drop dead!
Election Day. That’s singular. One day. Not a minute more.
Will never happen…the fraud must go on they yelp.
Sen. Kennedy, the only good senator from my state. Cassidy’s still acting like a petulant child after being voted out.
I don’t have any problem with restricting mail-in ballots, but at my age I’m NOT big on having to stand in line in the sun for an hour to cast my vote. There is nothing inherently wrong with early voting if it’s done honestly, which is the case in most if not all “red” precincts. The problem is blue precinct cheating, and I don’t care what system you devise, you won’t even affect it, much less stop it. It’s who and what they are.