BREAKING: Trump administration runs 67 million voter registrations through federal databases ahead of midterms
The Trump administration has quietly screened more than 67 million voter registrations through federal government databases in a sweeping push to identify noncitizens and deceased voters, with critics warning the effort looks less like election integrity and more like a coordinated purge designed to suppress votes ahead of November.
At least 25 states, most under Republican control, have fed their voter rolls into a Homeland Security program called SAVE since April 2025. The system has flagged roughly 24,000 registrations as potential noncitizens and hundreds of thousands more as potentially deceased. But the system keeps misidentifying eligible voters, including a legal citizen who has voted for 50 years and a man who immigrated legally as a child and became a citizen through his parents.
Voting rights advocates say that's the real danger. In some states, a flagged registration is suspended immediately, forcing voters to prove their eligibility within 30 days or risk having their ballot thrown out entirely. By the time many people find out they've been flagged, the election has already passed.
At least six federal lawsuits have been filed challenging the program. Civil rights attorneys argue the administration is running an illegal mass harvest of confidential voter data using a system that was never designed for this purpose, and that the inevitable false positives aren't a bug but a feature. "If a voter is wrongly removed, by the time they learn about it and correct it, they may miss their opportunity to vote," one ACLU attorney warned.
The administration insists the program is a first step that requires further investigation before anyone loses their registration permanently. But with the midterms approaching and error-prone databases driving the process, critics say the damage may already be done long before Election Day.
