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February 13, 2026

Murkowski Gets Slammed over SAVE

Timothy Birdnow

She voted for the act befor she was against it:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

@lisamurkowski

When Democrats attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed. Now, I’m seeing proposals such as the SAVE Act and MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the "times, places, and manner" of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska.

Election Day is fast approaching. Imposing new federal requirements now, when states are deep into their preparations, would negatively impact election integrity by forcing election officials to scramble to adhere to new policies likely without the necessary resources. Ensuring public trust in our elections is at the core of our democracy, but federal overreach is not how we achieve this.

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Senator Murkowski voted to advance the 2021 voter reforms she references here. She was the only Republican to do so.

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9:30 AM · Feb 10, 2026

Murkoowski was elected in 2010 when Tea Party candidate Joe Miller defeated her in the GOP primary (she was appointed to fill out her father's term in the Senate then served one elected term) and she ran as an independent - she wasn't even on the ballot - and received a dubious amount of mail-in votes. I suspect had the Alaskan elections been supervised by the Feds she would not have ever been in the u.S. Senate, or she would now be a professor at some obscure Alaskan college. The very fact of her opposition is suggestive, in my humble opinion.

Alaskan politics have been corrupt for a long time. The Democrats prosecuted former Senator Ted Stevens, for example, on trumped up charges and there was prosecutorial abuse of power in that trial - in which Stevens was ccused of corruption and the prosecution hid exculpatory material - led to Stevens losing his seat. It was later proven to be false and the presiding judge in the case called the trial "one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct " he had ever seen.

Steven's conviction was vacated shortly after the election.

I've long wondered if Murkowski had a hand in that. Pure speculation but there it is. At least she knew this was bogus and failed to come to Stevens' aid. Stevens was almost as big a RINO as the Murk, though. Still, it was clear her election in 2010 was murky, pun intended. I suspect she is quite corrupt. Certainly her father Frank's top aid was found guilty of corruption charges while in his employ, and he was probably the fall guy.

So the crabapple doesn't fall far from the tree, methinks. And Lisa does everything she can to screw over her own Party when it suits her. Like now.

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