For our system of government to function effectively, our citizenry must have confidence in our electoral system. This once seemed like a benign statement, one that would have earned a nod of agreement from all parties and served as a unifying principle of our constitutional republic. 

Today, that confidence is under threat — not from a single dramatic failure, but from the slow accumulation of vulnerabilities that too many elected officials refuse to even acknowledge.  Even the appearance of possible fraud is a major issue and can disenfranchise voters.

The evidence isn’t theoretical. Non-citizens have turned up on Nevada’s voter rolls. Our registration process has no meaningful safeguard to stop it from happening again. And rather than treat this as the crisis it is, too many in Washington and Carson City have chosen to look the other way.

I won’t. As a Nevada Assemblywoman, I have both the platform and the responsibility to act, and I intend to use both. That’s why I am introducing and sponsoring the SAVE Nevada Act in the Nevada Legislature. 

The SAVE Act has been sitting in the U.S. Senate, and it’s becoming increasingly clear it isn’t going anywhere. Washington has had every opportunity to fix this and hasn’t — history shows you’ll never go broke betting against D.C. politicians actually solving a tough problem. So Nevada will. And doing it the Nevada way will be better in the long run.

But good legislation requires good legislators to pass it. That’s the mission of the Save Nevada Now PAC, which I am proud to chair. We will endorse, support, and fight for candidates at every level who are committed to securing Nevada’s elections and have the backbone to stand firm under pressure. The SAVE Nevada Act needs champions in the legislature, not spectators.

Under the SAVE Nevada Act, Nevada will:

  • Remove all non-citizens from our voter rolls,
  • Enact safeguards in the voter registration process to prevent non-citizens from ever being registered again,
  • Eliminate automatic voter registration, and
  • End universal mail-in ballots.

Liberals may shift from claiming “there is no fraud” to arguing, “Well, it’s such a small number, is it really worth reforming our entire system?” My answer is a resounding yes! And besides, they’ve been reforming our entire system ever since Covid brought “emergency” rules.

Nevada has a long history of extremely close elections: a U.S. Senate race decided by 84 votes, a state senate race by 28 votes, a county commission race by 10 votes, and, sadly, America endured the disastrous “leadership” of Harry Reid because he won re-election in 1998 by a mere 401-vote margin.

Even absent those razor-thin margins, no citizen’s vote should ever be diluted by the ineligible. Generations fought and died — soldiers on battlefields, suffragettes in the streets, civil rights leaders marching — for every American’s right to vote. Permitting processes that make fraud easier undermines their legacy and stains our republic.

The SAVE Nevada Act is the vehicle. Save Nevada Now PAC is the engine. And the conservatives we elect this cycle will be the ones who finally get it across the finish line.

I hope state legislators and candidates across the country pick up this baton and pursue meaningful reforms. Each state can continue this fight, honoring the tradition of those who came before us, and together we can make it part of the lasting legacy of President Donald Trump.

Lisa Cole is a Nevada Assemblywoman and the Chairwoman of the Save Nevada Now PAC.