Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
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Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
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genxy · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_Alien_Verification_for_Entitlements" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_Alien_Verification_...
> Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) is a program managed by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a branch of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). SAVE was created in 1986 and facilitates lookups on the immigration and nationality status of individuals in the United States.
The wikipedia article is written ambiguously, or they bury the actual purpose of the SAVE database
> a system for verifying the immigration status of non-citizen applicants applying for (medicad, food stamps, unemployment, student loans and housing assistance)
It wasn't designed to be a citizenship database.
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/save-database-noncitizen-voters-trump-supreme-court-412e12f5a492dd20e407812f30f7c139" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/save-database-noncitizen-voters-t...
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-save-system-database/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-save-system...
legitster · · focus · HN ↗
Constitutionally, states cannot deny citizens the right to vote. So even if they use SAVE to "flag" potential voters, they are still going to have to provide people a way to provide proof of citizenship.
krapp · · focus · HN ↗
Yes they can. States can deny citizens the right to vote for "participation in rebellion, or other crime", as per the 14th Amendment and felons are often denied the right to vote. They can't do so on the basis of "race, color or former servitude" (15th Amendment) and probably not any other protected class reason (sex, religion, ethnicity) but that implicitly gives states the right to do so for any other reason.