Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system
- On Friday, The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on a federal voter database, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his campaign against noncitizen voting. States may now use the DHS program, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, to verify voter eligibility.
- District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan's June ruling had blocked The SAVE, citing privacy concerns and the potential for wrongly removing valid voters from the rolls. The court's emergency order now pauses that decision.
- Since launching the expanded search, at least 67 million registrations have been scanned through the program. In Travis County, Texas, officials investigated 97 voters flagged as noncitizens and found that at least 10%, and likely up to 21%, were actually Americans.
- Because existing law blocks most States from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, the immediate impact of the program on the upcoming midterms is likely limited.
- This effort is part of numerous steps The Trump administration has taken to overhaul election rules. Most have been blocked by courts because the Constitution gives Congress and States, not the president, authority over elections.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting.
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