US Supreme Court revives federal SAVE database for citizenship checks
The US Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration's use of a federal database for checking whether voters are citizens. The decision reopens access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, known as SAVE, after lower courts had blocked the revamped system. The ruling is a significant development in a dispute over how far the federal government can go in using sensitive personal data in election administration.The database is run by the Department of Homeland Security and is used to verify whether people on voter rolls are eligible to vote. According to the court record described in the... [Continue Reading]
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