Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

A federal judge blocked the use of the revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, ruling it could wrongly purge voters from rolls by aggregating sensitive personal data. The decision, by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, criticizes the Trump administration for violating statutory protections against centralizing voter information, marking a setback for efforts to nationalize election oversight.