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New docs show DHS is gathering drivers’ license data in voter fraud crusade (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The Trump administration is quietly undertaking an effort to expand a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tool used for citizenship verification to include drivers’ license and passport information—personal data it plans to utilize in its voter fraud crusade.

You’ve probably never heard of the DHS system known as SAVE (or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements), which the agency has historically used to confirm individuals are citizens and therefore eligible for government assistance. But if the Trump administration gets its way, SAVE will soon know a lot about you.

Since SAVE’s inception in 1987, government agencies have analyzed immigrants’ citizenship status by plugging immigration identification numbers into the system, which then checked the information against other federal databases. In May, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) added social security numbers as information that SAVE could query. DOGE further boosted SAVE’s capacity by allowing bulk searches, rather than searching individuals one-by-one.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not for voter fraud. It's for something much darker.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Why not both.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lmao. Unless someone reports this, it's staying. This is a couch fucking, hair dye sweating down your face, farting on audio, disappearing into the grass, worthy of a meme. He'll never let this one go, true or not.