Supreme Court revives controversial US data system for citizenship checks
The system uses citizenship information and other sensitive data to filter alleged non-citizen voting.
The US Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration's use of a controversial federal database, known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), to identify voters suspected of being non-citizens. The court ruled that the National Voter Registration Act prohibits broad purges of voter rolls in the weeks before an election, limiting the potential impact of the decision ahead of the midterms.
However, critics have raised concerns about the reliability of the data, warning that it could result in US citizens being wrongly removed from electoral rolls.
Brief written by urgent.news from BBC World's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
This story
This is one outlet's version. Read the fullest account.
- Supreme Court lets Trump administration use SAVE database for now cbsnews.com
- Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system jpost.com
- Congress demands removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over ‘electoral irregularities’ thehindu.com
- US Supreme Court allows Trump to use controversial voter 'verification' system france24.com
- Supreme Court, over liberal dissents, lets DHS overhaul immigration database for midterms thehill.com
- Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now pbs.org
- In win for Trump, U.S. Supreme Court lets states use revamped voter verification system cbc.ca
- The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks npr.org
