Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump's Voter-Checking System
Remember when the government decided to run tens of millions of registered voters through an immigration database? Yeah, a federal judge just looked at that and said, 'absolutely not.'
The database in question is called SAVE. It was originally built for a pretty dry, administrative purpose: helping government agencies check if non-citizens are actually eligible for things like Medicaid or housing benefits.
But the Trump administration had a different idea. They decided to revamp the tool and use it to screen massive lists of registered voters to hunt for non-citizens on the rolls.
The problem is that dumping millions of actual, legal citizens' private data into a system not designed for voter registration is a major legal stretch. A federal judge just ruled that using this immigration database to verify voter eligibility is completely unlawful.
It turns out that using a tool designed for welfare benefits to police the voting booths is a massive overreach that just won't fly in court.
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