Was the Supreme Court right to let the Trump administration use the SAVE database to check voter rolls for noncitizens?
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to let the Trump administration use the expanded SAVE database to check state voter rolls for potential noncitizens ahead of November's midterm elections, pausing a lower-court order that cited privacy law.
Vote fraud has been demonstrated repeatedly to be a rare phenomenon. Nonetheless, it is important to assure the integrity of the vote both in fact and in perception. It is defensible to use the SAVE database to identify potential illegal voters, investigate them, and purge them IF after due process they are shown to be ineligible. Now, do I believe that is how the Trump administration and its vote-rigging allies in various states intend to use it? Don't make me laugh.
Exactly. I trust the voting systems. I don't trust those who now want to oversee those systems.
If you're voting yes, what's your line on data accuracy versus purge speed? A wrong flag means a real voter gets kicked, not just a noncitizen.