Supreme Court unblocks voter verification database linking Social Security and citizenship records
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| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:39:57 +0000 |
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a key election integrity win on the emergency docket Friday, lifting a block on the implementation of a voter verification system that would combine Social Security information with citizenship records.The high court ruled 6-3, allowing the administration to move forward with modifying the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to combine citizenship and Social Security records, something they announced last year in a bid to improve the speed and reliability of verifying a person’s citizenship status.
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