“Introduced the Save Democracy Act, which he says would impose election-integrity measures including voter ID, poll-watching provisions, and faster ballot counting.”
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Independently re-verified against primary federal records. The GPO bill text (BILLS-117hr322ih) confirms Banks was the lead introducer of H.R. 322, the 'Save Democracy Act', on January 15, 2021, and that the bill contains each of the three specific measures the promise cites: documentary proof of citizenship plus 'a current and valid identification' for voting, a mandate that officials 'permit at least 2 representatives of each candidate appearing on the ballot in a general election for Federal office to observe the tabulation of the ballots', and a requirement that states 'continue the tabulation of the ballots cast in the election without interruption' until every lawfully cast ballot is counted. The authoritative govinfo BILLSTATUS XML confirms Banks (R-IN-3) as sponsor and shows the bill ultimately drew 73 cosponsors (the prior rating's '30' understated this - 30 was roughly the introduction-day figure, not the total), and that the bill's ONLY recorded actions were introduction and same-day referral to the Committee on House Administration. It never received a markup, a floor vote, or enactment. Heritage Action independently documents the companion Senate bill S.459 (Sen. Rick Scott) and the same poll-observation provision, corroborating that Banks led a coordinated legislative push rather than casting a single supporting vote. Banks's own campaign issues page states he 'introduced the Save Democracy Act ... through common-sense, conservative reforms like voter ID, fair poll watching, and swift counting of ballots' - the verbatim origin of the promise text. Adversarial checks: (1) FULL was considered and rejected - although he literally did the act of introducing, the promise's substance (imposing these election-integrity measures) never took effect, so it cannot be 'kept essentially 100%'. (2) CHAMPIONED is not partisan leniency: the rubric explicitly covers a legislator who 'actively LED/sponsored/drove the effort ... even if not fully enacted', and a Democrat who authored a signature bill, recruited 73 cosponsors, and secured a Senate companion that then died in committee would receive the identical label. (3) ATTEMPTED (+0.25) would be too harsh - that tier describes merely voting for something, whereas Banks authored the text and organized the cosponsor bloc. (4) No evidence of any action against the promise's direction, so the negative tiers are inapplicable. The two congress.gov URLs returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching (standard anti-bot blocking, not dead links), but every fact they were cited for was independently confirmed through govinfo, so no citation was found to be invented or misquoted. CHAMPIONED at 0.88 stands.
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