The platform said: “Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship”
2024 Republican Platform, Promise 19What was done: The Supreme Court let the administration resume using a revamped citizenship-screening database to check voters, over a dissent warning it will misidentify citizens.
In DHS v. League of Women Voters (No. 26A308), the Supreme Court granted an unsigned stay on September 25, 2026, by a 6-3 vote, letting states resume using DHS's modified SAVE database, now linked to Social Security records, to check voters' citizenship while the underlying case proceeds, reversing a June 2026 district court injunction. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, warning the majority disregarded the harm of letting a flawed tool keep operating. Local test runs have found high error rates: a St. Louis County, Missouri check flagged 691 voters as noncitizens, of whom at least 81% were later confirmed to be citizens, and Texas reinstated 20% of the voters SAVE had flagged.
Sources
- NPR — Supreme Court revives the SAVE data system
- Ballotpedia News — Supreme Court allows use of expanded SAVE system
- CBS News — Supreme Court allows SAVE database for now
- Mother Jones — St. Louis County SAVE results
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