Overview
- USCIS Director Joseph Edlow announced that states can now verify registrants using only the last four digits of a Social Security number rather than all nine.
- Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said 42 potential non‑U.S. citizens identified through SAVE have been referred to the FBI for investigation and he publicly thanked President Trump for the system improvements.
- The flagged cases amount to roughly 0.0001% of Tennessee’s approximately 4.3 million registered voters after the state purged about 276,000 names by June.
- The SAVE system was designed to verify eligibility for public benefits but some states use it to check voter registrants’ citizenship.
- Reports indicate about 26 states use or are moving to agreements with SAVE, while the Brennan Center cautions that incomplete or outdated data could lead to erroneous voter removals.