Oppose federal election overreach and preserve state election control.

Kevin Hern · Oklahoma · Republican

policy impact 3.00 specificity 3.00 extraction confidence 98%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

Occurrences

Protect Freedom of Speech Opposed H.R.1 to limit federal overreach, protect free speech, and state election control; cosponsored H.R.949.

The page says Hern opposed H.R.1 because of federal overreach and support for state control over elections.

Kevin Hern for Senate
campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

I voted against the Democrats so-called For the People Act (H.R.1) which would interject more Washington cronyism between voters and the ballot box, restrict their first amendment rights, and limit our states’ authority to administer their own electoral process.

The candidate says he opposed H.R. 1 because it would expand federal control over elections and limit state authority.

Protect Freedom of Speech - Kevin Hern
campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

legacy_unverified · Source version not recorded · locator unknown

Jun 09 Hern Votes to Fund ICE and CBP; Apr 30 Hern Backs Farm Bill; Apr 29 Hern Applauds Passage of Budget Resolution to Fund ICE & CBP

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The office's latest public updates in the lookback window are about immigration funding, the farm bill, and budget reconciliation; no election-specific action is posted there, so the promise is unresolved in the window.

unresolved unknown

U.S. Representative Kevin Hern
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 74%

legacy_unverified · Source version not recorded · locator unknown

voted today in support of the SAVE America Act; "Only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections."

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Hern publicly backed and helped pass House legislation requiring proof of citizenship and photo ID for federal elections, which is a concrete pro-claim step but did not by itself finish the policy change.

partial same_term A for effort

Hern Votes to Restore Election Integrity | U.S. Representative Kevin Hern
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 96%

legacy_unverified · Source version not recorded · locator unknown

S.1383 passed the House 218-213 on February 11, 2026; Kevin Hern, Republican of Oklahoma, voted Yea.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official roll-call evidence confirms Hern took a concrete vote for the SAVE America Act, a federal voter citizenship/photo-ID bill aligned with his election-integrity position, but this House vote alone did not enact the policy.

partial same_term A for effort

House Roll Call Vote 69, 119th Congress, 2nd Session
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

legacy_unverified · Source version not recorded · locator unknown

Last Updated: August 8, 2026; SAVE America Act appears as S.1383/H.R.7296 with Advanced Action and no Public Law/Veto entry.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate’s current legislation tracker still lists the SAVE America Act as active legislation rather than enacted law, with no lookback-window sign that the commitment was delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate: Commonly Searched for Legislation (119th Congress)
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Hern has not delivered the promised outcome as enacted federal policy: the SAVE America Act/S.1383 had passed the House after his yea vote on February 11, 2026, but Congress.gov still showed it short of enactment, with the latest action being receipt of the House amendment in the Senate on February 12, 2026. However, he did take a concrete same-term legislative step by cosponsoring/supporting and voting for House passage of election-integrity legislation he framed as limiting improper voting in federal elections. Because the policy outcome remains unenacted, this merits partial credit rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Kevin Hern took a concrete election-policy action by voting for the SAVE America Act and publicly framing it as protecting election integrity. That shows meaningful effort consistent with the promise’s general theme of resisting perceived federal election overreach. But the evidence does not show that he actually achieved the promised outcome of preserving state election control, nor that any enacted federal change delivered that result. With only a supportive House vote and no completed policy outcome, partial credit is the best fit.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 83%