April 7 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's multipronged plan for ensuring only eligible citizens vote in elections leans on a system that experts say is flawed.
Trump's executive order announced last week directs election officials to use Social Security Administration records and the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE system, to assist in verifying voter eligibility.
However, the Social Security Administration's records, by its own admission, cannot reliably verify citizenship and the SAVE system has a history of misidentifying citizens as noncitizens.
The president is meanwhile urging Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or SAVE Act -- not to be confused with the aforementioned SAVE system -- which would direct election officials to use the SAVE system and Social Security records to verify citizenship.
A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson told UPI in a statement that the SAVE system has identified more than 21,000 cases of potential noncitizens being included on voter rolls.
