Trump asks Supreme Court to revive controversial system used for voter purges - CNN
The Trump administration has petitioned the Supreme Court to reinstate the SAVE program, which allows states to use federal data to purge voter rolls. Critics argue the program is prone to errors that could disenfranchise eligible voters.
Why it matters
The case highlights the ongoing legal and political battle over election integrity, voter access, and the use of federal databases in state-level election administration.
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate a controversial citizenship records system his administration has sought to wield for sweeping reviews of state voter rolls. Voter roll audits using the Department of Homeland Security data program known as SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) have been on hold in most of the country since a lower court found that the administration violated privacy law in how it beefed up the program for voter purges. Critics of the program argue that it produces inaccurate results wrongly identifying eligible voters as non-citizens and could lead to flawed purges that disenfranchise voters. Trump has made the program a central tool in his government-wide effort to find proof of non-citizen voting.
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