Democracy Docket: DOJ partially confirms DHS whistleblower allegations in new notice to federal court
The Department of Justice has partially confirmed allegations made by a DHS whistleblower in a notice filed with a federal court, according to Democracy Docket. The case involves a legal challenge by the League of Women Voters and EPIC against DHS's effort to expand the SAVE database for voter eligibility checks, which plaintiffs argue violates the Constitution and federal privacy law.
Why this matters: SAVE is a federal immigration database. It was not built to verify voter eligibility. Using it that way means eligible voters could be flagged as ineligible based on data that was never designed for that purpose. Errors in immigration records are not rare, and the people most likely to be wrongly disqualified are naturalized citizens. A DOJ filing that partially backs the whistleblower makes this harder to dismiss. The accountability question is simple: who fixes it when a database error costs someone their vote?
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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