The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
Brianna Lennon, who runs elections in Boone County, Missouri, pushed back against the use of a new error-prone federal tool to identify potential noncitizens on her voter rolls. Joe Johnson for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
by Jen Fifield, ProPublica, and Zach Despart, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Co-published with The Texas Tribune
February 13, 2026, 5:30 am
At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification…
A federal judge has ruled that a revamped federal tool that state election officials have used in their efforts to identify…
The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens…
The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens…
Obtaining the necessary documents under the SAVE Act is not as easy as it might sound.
The Trump administration violated federal privacy protections when it overhauled a citizen data program so that it could be used…
