SAFEGUARDING THE VOTE: Trump Administration Further Modernizes Citizenship Verification

The new settlement requires the federal government to modernize the citizenship verification tools so every state and territory—not just the four litigants—can more easily prevent noncitizens from voting. - Fred Lucas@FredLucasWH

• The DHS committed to making upgrades to SAVE that include free verification services for all state and local governments, and allow for verification using full Social Security numbers or use the last four digits of Social Security numbers. 
• The settlement allows for states to do bulk uploads to process verifications more efficiently, which eliminates the need for one-by-one manual entries. ..

The SAVE system was established in 1987 to help state and local governments to verify if someone was legally eligible for social service benefits using the alien identification numbers assigned by the federal government...

• In 2011, the Obama administration’s Justice Department under then-Attorney General Eric Holder gave pre-clearance to SAVE under the Voting Rights Act.

The verification database for voting wasn’t controversial in the past, Churchwell said...