Following court order, DHS appears to have shut down SAVE for checking voter citizenship

Key Points:

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has apparently complied with a court order to disable the expanded functions of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database used for voter registration citizenship checks.
• U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled last week that DHS must reverse upgrades that allowed bulk citizenship status checks of millions of registered voters, a program initiated under President Trump.
• The expanded SAVE system included Social Security data and enabled bulk searches using partial Social Security numbers, but these functions have now been disabled, preventing state election officials from using them.
• Prior to the shutdown, the program had been used primarily by Republican-led states to check over 67 million voters, flagging thousands as potential noncitizens, though many flagged individuals were later confirmed as eligible voters.
• Despite the court order, DHS has not publicly updated the SAVE program’s website to reflect the suspension of these functions, and recent updates still promote new case processing capabilities.