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Senators Want Answers on Use of DHS Database to Purge Voters
If Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials can brief an election-denier group on how states are now using its databases to verify voters’ citizenship, then they can brief Congress, a trio of Democratic senators wrote to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Tuesday.Under President Donald Trump, DHS upgraded its Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, integrating data from the Social Security Administration and making the database available to state officials to confirm voter registrants’ citizenship for free.
The rapid expansion of a system previously used by federal agencies to confirm eligibility for social safety net benefits into a widely-accessible, centralized database of U.S. citizens creates considerable risks, Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in a letter.
“Data quality issues may cause state and local officials who rely on the program to receive false positives or incomplete results,” they wrote. “Public transparency and assurances that the Department is appropriately protecting citizens’ rights, including privacy, is extremely important.”
Senators Want Answers on Use of DHS Database to Purge Voters
Senators Want Answers on Use of DHS Database to Purge Voters
For Repubs voter suppression is a relentless pursuit.
