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Supreme Court Pauses Ban on Expanded SAVE Voter-Verification Database

The order lets DHS make the revamped system available to states during an ongoing appeals process.

FILE - Voters arrive to cast their ballots at Lyons Park on primary Election Day, Aug. 11, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf, File)
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on the morning after the conservative majority sided with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Demonstrators hold signs during a voting rights rally outside the US Capitol in Washington DC, on September 15.

Overview

  • The Supreme Court granted an emergency stay on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, pausing a June injunction by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that had barred the use of the modified SAVE system.
  • The administration expanded SAVE in 2025 to add Social Security Administration records, allow searches by Social Security number, and permit bulk, multi-record queries for voter-citizenship checks.
  • Local reviews and plaintiffs say the system has produced many erroneous matches that have flagged naturalized or U.S.-born citizens as noncitizens, forcing some to prove their status and temporarily losing registrations during local checks.
  • Immediate large-scale removals are constrained because states use SAVE voluntarily and federal law generally bars systematic purges within 90 days of a federal election, but the ruling lets officials run individualized checks ahead of the midterms.
  • The legal fight will continue over whether a 1996 immigration statute lets DHS collect and share citizenship data despite the Privacy Act and Social Security Act, and three liberal justices dissented from the Court’s emergency order.