Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Trump Administration's Use of Citizenship Data for Voter Checks

A federal appeals court panel, in a 2-1 ruling, rejected the Trump administration's attempt to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to verify citizenship records on state voter rolls. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower court's decision that the Homeland Security Department's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database violates the Social Security Act due to concerns about sharing private information and potential inaccuracies that could lead to voter registration cancellations.