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US Supreme Court allows federal database use to verify voter rolls
The US Supreme Court granted a Trump administration request to let the Department of Homeland Security use the SAVE database to check citizenship on voter rolls, lifting a lower court block ahead of November midterm elections. Three liberal justices dissented.
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a Trump administration request to allow use of a federal database to identify potential non-citizens on voter rolls. A majority of the nine justices joined the unsigned opinion, giving President Donald Trump a victory ahead of the November midterm elections. The three liberal justices on the conservative-dominated court dissented.
The decision lifted a lower court order that had blocked use of a Department of Homeland Security program known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) to verify the citizenship of individuals on the voter rolls.
Trump has claimed for years that many non-citizens vote in US elections and that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to fraud. Those claims have been described as baseless. The ruling allows the SAVE program to be used for voter roll checks.
- Donald Trump
- US midterm elections
- voter rolls
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WorldCourts
US Supreme Court allows federal database use to verify voter rolls
The US Supreme Court granted a Trump administration request to let the Department of Homeland Security use the SAVE database to check citizenship on voter rolls, lifting a lower court block ahead of November midterm elections. Three liberal justices dissented.
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a Trump administration request to allow use of a federal database to identify potential non-citizens on voter rolls. A majority of the nine justices joined the unsigned opinion, giving President Donald Trump a victory ahead of the November midterm elections. The three liberal justices on the conservative-dominated court dissented.
The decision lifted a lower court order that had blocked use of a Department of Homeland Security program known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) to verify the citizenship of individuals on the voter rolls.
Trump has claimed for years that many non-citizens vote in US elections and that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to fraud. Those claims have been described as baseless. The ruling allows the SAVE program to be used for voter roll checks.
- Donald Trump
- US midterm elections
- voter rolls
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