Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing much of the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.
“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in Arizona.
Lane, now election integrity director at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a Trump-aligned Washington, D.C. think tank, took the documentary proof of citizenship requirement in the original Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) America Act, and added the new bill’s voter ID provision and registration roll maintenance sections, according to a Thursday email to reporters sent by AFPI’s communications director, offering an interview with Lane.
“Thomas has unique firsthand insight into this legislation — Speaker [Mike] Johnson’s team originally approached him with Sections 1–2, and Thomas personally drafted and added Sections 3–8, including the bill’s voter roll maintenance provisions,” Melanie Wilcox wrote. “He can also explain why this version is effectively a “new” product: the original SAVE Act plus photo voter ID requirements.”
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