Published on
23/06/2026 - 6:13 GMT+2
A federal judge ruled on Monday that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalise elections can no longer be used.
US District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the programme, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.
“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan said in an order explaining the decision. “This court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”
