According to an email reportedly sent from the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration quietly sought to “soft launch” modified features of a high-tech tool it’s using to gather election data that many people fear could be weaponized to fuel the president’s false conspiracy theories about election fraud.
The email, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC, was reportedly sent last week by a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official to a lawyer for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, inviting North Carolina to test “exciting new features” of a federal database that the Trump administration has retrofitted to try to support its thoroughly debunked claims that Democrats have relied on illegal votes from noncitizens to sway elections.
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database is known as SAVE. Basically, it’s a federal database previously used for tracking entitlement benefits that has been perverted into an election-monitoring tool. SAVE combines federal immigration and crime data, along with data on state voter rolls and personal information like Social Security numbers, to target people deemed ineligible to vote, including alleged noncitizens.
As Democracy Docket noted, the new upgrade “allows election officials to use just the last four digits of a social security number — rather than requiring all nine — along with the individual’s name and date of birth when submitting a citizenship check request.”
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