DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data, containing alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
This year, states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness data from across federal agencies.
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system was updated with confidential data from the Social Security Administration on hundreds of millions of additional people, allowing bulk searches using Social Security numbers for the first time.
President Donald Trump’s contention that noncitizen voting is widespread
was not backed up by the initial results.
Author's summary: DHS access to Social Security data raises concerns.
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