{"id":3389,"date":"2026-06-22T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:36:38","slug":"judge-says-trump-cant-use-social-security-data-for-voter-roll-purges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3389","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Trump can\u2019t use Social Security data for voter roll purges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated privacy protections by expanding a citizenship verification program with Social Security data.<\/li>\n<li>The decision halts the government&#8217;s use of the enhanced system to identify noncitizens on state voter rolls.<\/li>\n<li>Voter advocates say the program can wrongly flag eligible citizens and threaten their ability to cast ballots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The Trump administration violated federal privacy protections when it overhauled a citizen data program so that it could be used more aggressively to purge voter rolls, a federal judge said Monday.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3385\">Judge says Trump DOJ subpoenas of Tim Walz and other Democrats are unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The  from US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is a major setback for President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to find foreigners on state voter lists \u2014 an effort voter advocates and election officials say can wrongly ensnare citizens, risking the disenfranchisement of eligible voters. Sooknanan\u2019s order halts the use of the expanded data system.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAll 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. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,\u201d said Sooknanan, an appointee of President Joe Biden.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The case centered on the federal data program known as SAVE \u2014 or the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements \u2014 that has long been used by the government to verify citizenship for public benefits, but has also been offered to election officials to check voter rolls for noncitizens.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - JUNE 9: A voter fills out a ballot on Election Day for the midterm primary on June 9, 2026 at Hand Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina. Four U.S. states conducted midterm primary elections on Tuesday. (Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-3388\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2f190d363106eec1280fb39dcf65f7e4.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA &#8211; JUNE 9: A voter fills out a ballot on Election Day for the midterm primary on June 9, 2026 at Hand Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina. Four U.S. states conducted midterm primary elections on Tuesday. (Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sean Rayford\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Exclusive: Trump administration plans to use homeland security funds to pressure states into election changes<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>4  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In the early months of Trump\u2019s second term, his administration beefed up the program by expanding the types of data fed into the system, adding Social Security data and data from other agency sources.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Sooknanan wrote in her ruling Monday that the administration knew the revamp of SAVE violated privacy protections passed by Congress, but went forward with it anyway as part of a scramble \u201cto comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3383\">The scale of Trump\u2019s political blunder in Iran is coming into focus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Since the overhaul, the administration has both encouraged states to use it, and as CNN reported Monday, now seeks to punish states that don\u2019t.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Justice Department has also gone on an unprecedented campaign to collect each state\u2019s unredacted voter registration file so the federal government can check the rolls against the citizenship data program. A more recent executive order by Trump also instructs the Department of Homeland Security to use SAVE and other federal data sources to assemble lists of voting-age citizens for each state.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s unclear how this new ruling will impact those projects on a practical level, but some of those maneuvers were already facing pushback in court in other lawsuits.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The case before Sooknanan was brought by several voter advocacy organizations and a privacy group. The challengers argued that their privacy rights were being harmed and that their members faced the threat of being wrongly identified as noncitizens, because of how the SAVE system can be outdated or inaccurate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAs the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy,\u201d said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represented the challengers. \u201cThe data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3373\">An explosive appeal from Trump over E. 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