Washington, June 23: A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalise elections can no longer be used.
US District Court Judge Sparkle L Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the programme, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls. She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralising Americans’ personal identifying information.
The decision is a major legal setback for President Donald Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on having noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls. (AP)
