PRESS RELEASE: Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Reinstate SAVE Voter Purge Database
A federal appeals court declined to pause a lower court order that blocks the Trump administration from using the SAVE database to conduct large-scale voter purges. The ruling means the government cannot use the system to remove voters from rolls ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Why this matters: Voter purges sound procedural until someone shows up to vote and finds out they have been removed. SAVE is an immigration status database, not an elections system. Using it to scrub voter rolls at scale means errors in one database can cost people their right to vote. That is a real, concrete harm. Two courts have now said this particular use goes too far. The midterms are the deadline that makes this matter right now.
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