Judge rules Trump administration illegally used DHS system to hunt for noncitizen voters, violating privacy
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By: Jonathan Shorman - June 22, 2026 1:30 pm
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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally overhauled a DHS computer program (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE) to hunt for noncitizen voters, violating the privacy of millions of Americans. The ruling struck at the core of Trump's efforts to assert federal authority over state-run elections ahead of the November midterms, finding that the administration trampled voter privacy by feeding state voter roll data into the Homeland Security system without proper legal authority.
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· 3 pulledThe Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans.
The ruling struck at the core of President Donald Trump's project to assert authority over state-run elections ahead of the November midterms.
Under Trump's control, the executive branch has spent the past year attempting to obtain state voter rolls to feed into the computer program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.
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