The Senate floor last week was a documented case study in how the SAVE Act actually works as a political object. Fake electors alumni helped draft it. Trump said it guarantees Republicans never lose for fifty years. Cruz used floor time to rehearse 2020 claims that sixty-plus courts rejected. Murkowski warned it pre-positions a stolen election narrative for 2026. Tillis called it a waste of time. Meanwhile the bill’s actual mechanics stayed mostly undebated: documentary proof of citizenship requirements that half of Americans cannot easily meet, absentee photo ID mandates Marc Elias says are logistically designed to end mail voting entirely, elimination of registration through churches, DMVs, and college campuses, and criminal liability for the local clerk who processes a form incorrectly. The floor performance was not accidental. When the argument for your bill is a fraud claim courts have already buried, performance is the only play left.