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Keeping Elections Secure

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On Friday, CNBC posted an article about a Supreme Court decision that will help ensure election integrity.

The article reports:

The justices granted the Justice Department’s request to block a judge’s order that had stopped state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to conduct sweeping checks of the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records.

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Its three liberal justices dissented from Friday’s order.

The majority said the plaintiffs’ arguments likely fail because federal law expressly authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including the Social Security Administration.

The administration’s data-sharing arrangement is one in a series of actions boosting the federal government’s involvement in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections in which Trump’s fellow Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress. The U.S. Constitution gives individual states the primary authority to run and administer elections.

The Department of Homeland Security last year redesigned a federal database known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, ​or SAVE, used to verify a person’s citizenship and immigration status. The revamp allowed users to search many records at a time and to conduct searches using individuals’ Social Security numbers.

The argument against using the system is that it is an invasion of privacy and that there has not been rampant fraud in our elections. The article claims that charges of massive voter fraud in 2020 are unfounded. I think the Department of Justice might disagree with that statement.

The article concludes:

In a Supreme Court filing, Justice Department lawyers called the ​judge’s order “indefensible,” arguing that it “threatens the integrity” of the midterm elections.

Texas, which intervened in the case in support of the administration, has disputed claims that the system is unreliable.

Due to separate litigation in Florida, the Trump administration has been able to continue using its modified SAVE system in the Republican-led states of Florida, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio.

We desperately need to protect election integrity.

This Makes My Head Hurt

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On Tuesday, The Federalist posted an article about a recent decision by D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan. The Judge is from Trinidad and Tobago.

The article reports:

D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, blocked the Trump administration from using an updated database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in order to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections.

Sooknanan became a U.S. citizen in 2009, but seemingly still retains citizenship in Trinidad and Tobago, which she said she would only renounce “if required by law.” As Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., pointed out, “If judges can stop Presidents, they should not also be citizens of foreign nations.”

The judge argued that because the database can sometimes have outdated information — for example, if someone obtained citizenship more recently than the last available information — the whole enterprise of making sure noncitizens cannot vote in American elections should be thrown out.

The article concludes:

Before becoming a federal judge, Sooknanan was a key Biden Justice Department official who pressed to go after parents the Biden administration deemed “domestic terrorists” for being concerned about what their children were learning in public schools across the country.

“Import third-world people, put them in power, watch your country start resembling their homelands,” Greg Bovino, former commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, said of Sooknanan. “Mass deportations now, before the next 100 million illegals we have here have anchor babies lock it in.”

We already have proof that thousands of people who are not citizens have voted in our elections. If one person were not allowed to vote because of the time of the information, that would be unfortunate, but not as unfortunate as thousands of American voters having their votes cancelled out by illegal votes. We have an integrity problem with our elections. In some places it is worse than in others. This judge should be protecting election integrity–not protecting election fraud.

But Did They Vote?

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On Monday, ABC11 posted an article about the voter rolls in North Carolina.

The article reports:

The North Carolina State Board of Elections has identified approximately 34,000 dead people on the state’s voter rolls following a comprehensive data comparison with the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, also known as the SAVE database.

The discovery happened during the state board’s ongoing effort to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

“While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated,” said Sam Hayes, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to uncover issues like this. Our goal is to use every available and legal tool at our disposal to achieve the most accurate voter rolls possible. Now, we must roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work to act of verifying that every person registered to vote in North Carolina is eligible. Our team, along with our state and federal will do what’s necessary to meet this responsibility.”

Election officials say the identification of deceased people on the voter rolls does not necessarily indicate that illegal votes were cast in their names.

There is an important fact left out of this article.

In August 2025, The Carolina Journal reported:

  • State Auditor Dave Boliek and Republican state legislative leaders defended in new court briefs the state law that shifted North Carolina elections board appointments to Boliek’s office.
  • Democratic Gov. Josh Stein challenges the shift spelled out in 2024’s Senate Bill 382. The dispute sits now with the state Court of Appeals.
  • An Appeals Court order in April allowed Boliek to take over elections board appointments. Appellate judges overruled a three-judge trial court panel that ruled in Stein’s favor.

Why wasn’t an audit done when the Democrats had control of the election process and voter rolls?