{"id":7260,"date":"2026-05-17T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:02:12","slug":"trump-administration-promotes-program-to-check-voter-eligibility-critics-fear-a-midterm-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration promotes program to check voter eligibility. Critics fear a midterm purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p><strong>By JOHN HANNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Even as Democratic officials fight the effort in court, the Trump administration has run millions of voter registrations through government databases to determine their eligibility in a process that critics worry could end up purging valid voters from the rolls before the November elections.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=7254\">Drone strikes UAE nuclear plant as US and Iran signal they are prepared to resume war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and tens of thousands of those have been flagged as potential noncitizens or people who have died. Some states allow only a month for people to prove their eligibility and others suspend it immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The scanning of state voter rolls at the national level is part of a broader effort by Republican President Donald Trump to federalize certain election functions and promote his messaging that elections are marred by noncitizen voting, even though instances of that are rare. Voting and civil rights advocates say the DHS system is error-prone and can mistakenly flag people who are eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a voter is wrongly removed, by the time they learn about it and correct it, they may miss their opportunity to vote in that election,\u201d said Freda Levenson, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. The group is challenging an Ohio law requiring monthly checks with the DHS system.<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marylou Zschach fills out her ballot at her polling place...\" class=\"wp-image-7256\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/88d60eef6f5c8fd29aa9d7e192e0317b.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Marylou Zschach fills out her ballot at her polling place at the Burbank Early Childhood School in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, May 5, 2026, during the primary election. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Nel poses for The Associated Press on Thursday, April...\" class=\"wp-image-7257\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b-1024x682.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b-1536x1023.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d95c631c80b421f7a834e189cc46455b.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Anthony Nel poses for The Associated Press on Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo\/Julio Cortez)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person votes in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax...\" class=\"wp-image-7258\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1a23807da579c29aa1f9a21c7d25beb8.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>A person votes in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Nel poses for The Associated Press on Thursday, April...\" class=\"wp-image-7259\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1750204579eb8a1de35e3c54112d94c4.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Anthony Nel poses for The Associated Press on Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo\/Julio Cortez)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><div>Marylou Zschach fills out her ballot at her polling place at the Burbank Early Childhood School in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, May 5, 2026, during the primary election. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Voters such as 29-year-old Anthony Nel have been caught in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>The native of South Africa, who became a citizen more than a decade ago, was flagged as a potential noncitizen when Texas ran its voter file through the DHS verification system. Nel\u2019s local election office in Denton, north of Dallas, temporarily canceled his registration last fall while he was waiting for a new passport to replace an expired one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018You should know that I\u2019m a citizen, that the passport exists,\u2019\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>States\u2019 entire voter rolls reviewed<\/h4>\n<p>Trump has been trying to overhaul U.S. elections, including calling for a federal list of verified voters, and his Department of Justice has pushed states to hand over unredacted voter information for mass checks through the DHS program known as SAVE.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has sued states that refuse, saying the government is trying to ensure that they are complying with federal law and have accurate voter lists. States already take a number of steps to maintain the accuracy of their voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>SAVE, short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, was created under an immigration law mandating that DHS help federal, state and local agencies prevent government benefits from going to noncitizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an arm of DHS, said more than 1,300 agencies use it.<\/p>\n<p>At least 25 states have used SAVE to check their voter rolls since April 2025, after the Trump administration significantly expanded its search abilities, and 60 million registrations were checked in a year\u2019s time, according to Citizenship and Immigration Services. That figure does not include an additional 7.4 million registrations from North Carolina, where Republicans control the state election board, that were recently run through the system.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an emailed statement that it is \u201ccommitted to helping eliminate voter fraud\u201d to restore Americans\u2019 trust in their elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSAVE is one of the most important tools states have to verify voter information,\u201d Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican, recently told a U.S. House committee examining how states keep voter rolls clean.<\/p>\n<p>Schwab\u2019s endorsement is notable because he once was publicly skeptical that noncitizens represented a significant voter fraud threat.<\/p>\n<h4>Republicans cite hits from SAVE searches<\/h4>\n<p>Citizenship and Immigration Services said the 60 million voter registration checks identified about 24,000 potential noncitizens. U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division, said during a recent Fox News interview that those checks also identified about 350,000 people who appear to have died.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s State Board of Elections said its check had identified another 34,000 registered voters who are potentially deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Even if all those eventually were verified as ineligible, they would represent small percentages of total registered voters. The figure for noncitizens would be about 400 for every 1 million registrations. Some 384,000 people identified as potentially deceased in about 67 million registrations is a fraction of 1%.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=7247\">Ukraine conducts large-scale drone strikes on Russia, killing 4 and wounding a dozen others<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some voters have been mistakenly flagged.<\/p>\n<p>In Dallas, election officials recently canceled the registration of Domingo Garcia, a 68-year-old lawyer and voting rights activist, without explanation. He has been voting regularly for 50 years, most recently in the state\u2019s March 3 primary, and suspects that officials concluded he was deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should not have been on any lists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h4>False positives are popping up<\/h4>\n<p>Voting rights advocates have filed at least six federal lawsuits over SAVE checks, either against the Trump administration or states using the program.<\/p>\n<p>Nel, a 29-year-old college administrator, is a plaintiff in one of them, filed recently in the District of Columbia against the Justice Department. It alleges an \u201cillegal and unprecedented quest\u201d by the administration for \u201cmillions of Americans\u2019 confidential voter data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers also argue that eligible voters will be disenfranchised by hits from outdated or incomplete data.<\/p>\n<p>Nel came to the United States from South Africa with his parents at age 8. His parents became citizens when he was 16, making him a citizen, as well. He said he has voted regularly since he was 18.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he received a letter in October in a white envelope that looked to him like junk mail. It told him he had been identified as a potential noncitizen through a SAVE check of Texas\u2019 18 million voter registrations. He had 30 days to prove otherwise \u2014 a deadline he missed because of the time it took to get a new passport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that this process that they\u2019ve put into place for this doesn\u2019t work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h4>Defenders say the SAVE system is a first step<\/h4>\n<p>Republican officials said the administration does not portray SAVE searches as foolproof. Instead, it identifies registrations that should be further investigated, they said.<\/p>\n<p>In Kansas, Schwab\u2019s office is still investigating its list of flagged registrations and has yet to disclose the number of hits of potentially ineligible voters from a SAVE check of the state\u2019s 2 million registrations.<\/p>\n<p>Once his office forwards flagged names to county officials, a state law enacted this year requires them to list the registrations as \u201cin suspense\u201d or \u201cpending\u201d until the cases are resolved. A flagged person still can vote, but the ballot is set aside for further review and might not be counted.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is supposed to give people with flagged registrations 30 days to prove they are properly registered. North Carolina will require county elections boards to give people whose registrations are challenged a hearing before they can be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>A new Ohio law requires local election boards to \u201cpromptly\u201d cancel the registrations of people whom the secretary of state identifies as noncitizens during registration checks that the official is required to make at least monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, said in an email that people\u2019s voting rights are not in danger because \u201call they need to do to immediately restore their registration status is show proof of citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Levenson, the ACLU lawyer, described the approach differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoot first and ask questions later,\u201d she said.\n<p><em>Associated Press writers Jack Dura in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Gary Robertson, in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=7242\">WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and tens of thousands of those have been flagged as potential noncitizens or people who have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump administration promotes program to check voter eligibility. 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