Jasleen Singh and Spencer Reynolds:
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and immigration status of people applying for government benefits…. But SAVE’s results — sometimes based on incomplete or outdated information — have never been perfect. For that reason, the information gleaned from the SAVE program should be considered useful, but not definitive, in assessing an individual’s citizenship.”
…. DHS has allowed state and local election officials to search for hundreds of thousands of voters simultaneously. This increases the risks that state officials will carry out erroneous voter purges and disenfranchise eligible voters. SAVE could also mislead, either because it incorrectly identifies someone as a noncitizen or fails to confirm immigration status, fueling false conspiracy theories about the integrity of U.S. elections.
