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Washington, United States — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice have run at least 67 million state voter registration records through federal databases ahead of the November midterm elections, according to federal tracking data and agency statements. The nationwide review uses an expanded version of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services originally developed to help government agencies verify immigration status for public benefits eligibility. In April 2025, the Trump administration broadened SAVE’s technical capabilities to enable mass checks of state voter rolls, and at least 25 states have since integrated the system, including a recent submission of 7.4 million registrations from North Carolina. Washington, United States — Federal officials say the program aims to identify potential noncitizens and deceased individuals on voter lists, describing SAVE as a primary tool for strengthening election integrity. Data from the first 60 million checks show about 24,000 registrants flagged as possible noncitizens and roughly 350,000 flagged as potentially deceased, with North Carolina separately reporting 34,000 additional voters flagged as possibly dead, figures that together represent less than one percent of the records reviewed. The initiative has drawn support from some Republican election officials, including Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, but it has also prompted at least six federal lawsuits from civil rights and voting rights groups, which argue that reliance on outdated or incomplete data has led to eligible citizens being wrongly flagged and, in some cases, placed in suspense or removed from the rolls.

Prepared by Lauren Mitchell and reviewed by editorial team.