(Crankers) This court case might be a lot bigger than meets the eye, as it might shake up elections in the future after what just happened.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and four Republican-led states, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio, have settled legal disputes about access to federal citizenship data.
In 2023, the states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, claiming that DHS had concealed information that they required to confirm the citizenship of specific registered voters.
Under the settlement, the states will be able to run bulk searches of thousands of voters through the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program using names, birthdates and Social Security numbers.
The settlement also allows the states to share driver’s license records with DHS to help update and modernize the SAVE database. DHS and the DOGE recently upgraded SAVE, making it free for election officials, expanding it to allow bulk searches, and enabling verification using common identifiers rather than DHS-issued numbers. The system will return initial citizenship verification results within 48 hours.
This could put an end to some of the voter fraud out there, which is huge for Republicans and probably bad for Democrats.
Voting rights groups have filed lawsuits challenging the expanded SAVE program, arguing it could lead to eligible voters being wrongly removed from voter rolls. This is just their stupid way of trying to protect their fraudulent voters, allegedly.
Trump’s DOJ already requested voter rolls from at least half of U.S. states, raising concerns from Democratic election officials about the potential sharing of that information with DHS.
Any Democrats who have concerns with this are simply lying. There is no reason the White House SHOULDN’T have this information. They should know that only American citizens are voting and other people are not somehow getting votes in.
Noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections and violations can lead to felony charges and deportation. State reviews have found that noncitizen registration is rare and instances of noncitizens casting ballots are even rarer. Even if it’s rare, that could just mean people weren’t caught yet.
State and local agencies use SAVE to verify the immigration status of applicants for public benefits. As part of the settlement, the four states must sign a memorandum of understanding with DHS within 90 days and establish a new information-sharing agreement, which may entail sending 1,000 randomly selected driver’s license records from each state.
