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Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

June 22, 2026

U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided on Monday with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, 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.

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