- Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S.
- Banned From Voting: In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens.
- Texas Confusion: As errors emerged in SAVE data, local clerks said the state hadn’t provided them with clear guidance and worried about disenfranchising eligible citizens.
The source of the bad data was a Department of Homeland Security tool called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE.
Once used mostly to check immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits, SAVE has undergone a dramatic expansion over the last year at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has long falsely claimed that millions of noncitizens lurk on state voter rolls, tainting American elections.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security in charge of a program to check if people can get benefits?
Seems like it’s working as they intended then.
As European I’m so confused by this. You just show your state ID and that’s it, they check on paper that you voted, then you put your voting papers into the box.
You’re are rightly confused. This is all theatrics by the far right to penalize liberal areas. Areas they deem as high risk of fraud or illegals, in other words left leaning states and counties.
They just made it so not all state IDs count.
All animals are equal, some are more equal
‘Accident’. 🙄
As designed.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
This is how political cleansing begins. Once the system is turned on, voting for anything slightly left will cast you as a criminal of the state.
Certainly they won’t use years of collected metadata from social networks about political sentiment, right? …right?
This has happened all over there US already. Someone challenges your right to vote and it’s your job to prove your eligibility. Can’t show up to your appointment? No ID? No bills going to that address? Only have a PO Box address? No voting for you!
And still, americans believe the democrats will win… Even after everything in the past, everything being said in the present, they’re still only going to protest.
What do you want Americans to do? Start an open insurrection? Do you really realize how many thousand of people would die the instant a semi-armed civilian led force tried to fight back?
Fewer than will if they continue to do nothing.
It’s a case of die standing up or on your knees in a ‘big beautiful’ concentration camp. A peaceful general strike and spending boycott would be a start, but nobody seems to be willing to make that sacrifice until it’s too late.
Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.
In large minority districts of entrenched Republican enclaves
Given that only 22 noncitizens over the course of like 10 years (can’t remember the exact statistic) tried to vote, the way to get the best accuracy would be to just hard code the answer to “yes, they can vote”. Then you get over 99.99% accuracy.
From the article:
At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.
I’m not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won’t change anything. Is anyone going to think “I’m going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend my free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect”?
“mistakenly” flags democrat registered voters? I can only assume
“It’s only rigged when we lose” - maga
thats the whole point, oops, you cant vote, sucks you were voting against us anyway…
But also, oops, you cant vote, sucks that you were going to vote for us anyway
“Mistakenly”. Bugs are the kind of things that can easily explain away intent to mess stuff up.
“Mistakenly”
Turns out, they were just using this meme as their requirements document.
You know how satire works, right? It’s based on existing reality.
So if it says I can’t vote because win not a us citizen and my state bans me from voting for it, am I off the hook on taxes?
No taxation without representation, right?
Logically yes, but these are not logical times.
“Mistakes”.
Cue Ron Howard voiceover.
