"Traitor Thom" Tillis (RINO-NC) again blocks SAVE Act which would ensure election intergrity | Eastern NC Now

Liberal "Republican" Senator Thom Tillis is back to his old tricks of stabbing his party in the back, this time on an election integrity bill, the SAVE Act that is overwhelmingly popular with voters according to the polls.  The SAVE Act would make photo voter ID nationwide, add safeguards against foreign citizens registering and voting, and put safeguards on mail-in ballots.  Even Jimmy Carter's federal election commission identified mail in ballots as the most vulnerable to fraud.

The SAVE Act has already passed the House.  Tillis had previously come out against it in the Senate.  Now Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has put forward a proposal to get it through the Senate in pieces, but Tillis is one of four liberal Republicans to oppose Kennedy on that.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/04/23/sigh-4-gop-senators-doom-sen-john-kennedys-save-act-fix-n2201612

One wonders if this is just the usual Tillis support for amnesty for illegal aliens focused on the provisions that stop foreign citizens from voting, but if so, why does he have a problem with photo voter ID, something all industrialized countries except the US already have on a national basis, most of them for many years.