The ‘Frankenstein’ Database Powering the Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
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TL;DR
- The Supreme Court has stayed a lower court’s ruling that blocked the use of a database for identifying noncitizen voters.
- The database, an overhauled version of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), was a key tool for the Trump administration's voter fraud investigations.
- More than 20 states had adopted the SAVE database, uploading their voter rolls to generate lists of potential noncitizens.
- The court's decision allows the administration and election officials to continue using the tool.