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SAVE System Blocked Over Privacy Violations
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A federal judge has halted the SAVE program — a government tool designed to verify citizenship for benefits — after finding it violated privacy rights by creating a national voter database that wrongly flagged and removed eligible citizens from voter rolls. The system, expanded under Trump to enforce election integrity, combined sensitive personal data in ways that led to real voters being mistakenly stripped of their right to vote. Despite claims it improved efficiency, the judge ruled the upgrades didn’t fix the core flaw: faulty data causing mass disenfranchisement. The ruling throws a wrench into the administration’s voter roll cleanup efforts, raising urgent questions about privacy, executive overreach, and the balance between election security and fundamental civil rights.
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