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States Use Trump Administration Data System To Root Out Noncitizen Voters

The NPR Politics Podcast

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The SAVE System: A Controversial Approach to Voter Verification

This chapter explores the SAVE system, a federal tool revamped under the Trump administration to verify voter citizenship by cross-referencing data from multiple sources. With 33 million voters already processed, the chapter discusses the implications of this system for state voter rolls, including concerns about data security and the potential for wrongful prosecutions. It highlights the partisan dynamics of the system's adoption and the complexities of federal and state interactions regarding voter registration data.

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