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FM123

(10,299 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:15 AM Nov 15

New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver's License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade

(Mother Jones) The Trump administration is quietly undertaking an effort to expand a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tool used for citizenship verification to include driver’s 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.

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But late last month, DHS indicated in a public notice posted to the federal register that it planned to build out the program even further, by adding the ability to search driver’s license information from all 50 states. The federal government could accomplish this either by requesting access to the driver’s license data from each state individually, or perhaps by relying on national data compiled by a private law enforcement nonprofit. DHS says SAVE will soon have access to the US passport database, too.

According to US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), the division of DHS that oversees SAVE, the expansion is an effort to verify voter eligibility more efficiently. Non-citizen voting has been an obsession of Donald Trump’s ever since he falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote in 2016 because three million undocumented immigrants voted in California. “[W]e are reinforcing the principle that America’s elections are reserved exclusively for American citizens,” USCIS spokesperson Matthew J. Tragesser says. But experts are concerned by SAVE’s expansion from a tool used to ascertain the status of an immigrant applying for public benefits to what is effectively an amalgamated database that can research hundreds of thousands of voters at once. They say it could be used to spread misinformation about the frequency of non-citizen voting, which studies show is incredibly rare, or even to try and remove eligible voters from state voter rolls based on the weaponization of faulty data.

Read more at link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/dhs-gathering-drivers-license-save-voter-fraud-crusade/

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New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver's License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade (Original Post) FM123 Nov 15 OP
To renew my thousand year old driver license, I needed a copy of my birth certificate. I actually had a copy of the efhmc Nov 15 #1
Yep! Be careful, for sure. FM123 Nov 15 #2
The first and last time I showed the DMV my birth certificate was more than fifty years ago. hunter Nov 16 #14
Took them long enough. 2naSalit Nov 15 #3
Yep. FM123 Nov 15 #7
Voter *MANIPULATION* crusade Arazi Nov 15 #4
Exactly. FM123 Nov 15 #8
The only voter fraud is MAGA using deceased or missing relatives' ballots Ritabert Nov 15 #5
Yep. FM123 Nov 15 #9
Projection is their only talent. Ritabert Nov 16 #13
The new Voting Rights Act should establish civil penalties for every voter wrongfully denied the right to vote. pecosbob Nov 15 #6
Yep. FM123 Nov 15 #10
kick Celerity Nov 15 #11
Thanks! FM123 Nov 16 #12

efhmc

(16,042 posts)
1. To renew my thousand year old driver license, I needed a copy of my birth certificate. I actually had a copy of the
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:33 AM
Nov 15

original. The person barely looked at it . She knew an old Texas lady when she saw one. But be careful if you are nor white.

hunter

(40,320 posts)
14. The first and last time I showed the DMV my birth certificate was more than fifty years ago.
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 12:47 PM
Nov 16

So far I've managed to avoid the Real ID bullshit.

Let's see if I lose my right to vote because of that.

That'll be fun...

Arazi

(8,678 posts)
4. Voter *MANIPULATION* crusade
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:37 AM
Nov 15

Fixed it for you

(As we all know there’s almost zero voter fraud)

Ritabert

(1,916 posts)
5. The only voter fraud is MAGA using deceased or missing relatives' ballots
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:33 PM
Nov 15

Just check the Villages Florida. The missing relative ballot incident occurred in Colorado.

pecosbob

(8,296 posts)
6. The new Voting Rights Act should establish civil penalties for every voter wrongfully denied the right to vote.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 02:45 PM
Nov 15

Removing a voter from the polls incorrectly or wrongfully should result in a fine payable to the wronged individual.

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