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A federal judge halted the Trump administration's database designed to verify voter citizenship using Americans' Social Security numbers and citizenship status, citing privacy and accuracy concerns that could wrongly purge eligible voters.
A federal judge halted the Trump administration's attempt to build a database using Americans' Social Security numbers and citizenship status to verify voter eligibility. The judge cited privacy concerns and the risk that the database would wrongly purge eligible voters from rolls.
This is the flip side of the voter roll cases—instead of grabbing existing state data, the administration tried to create a federal database from scratch. The judge's concern about accuracy is important: these systems have documented error rates, and combining SSN data with citizenship status creates a weapon that can remove people from voting rolls for mistakes or incomplete information. The legal objection isn't just privacy-in-the-abstract; it's that this particular tool would hurt real voters.
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