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A president, by Constitutional design, has no legal authority or direct role in administering, altering,<\/u> or <\/u><\/strong>conducting elections<\/u>. Authority over the mechanics of elections is legally split<\/u> between state governments and Congress, leaving no constitutional role for the executive branch.<\/p>\n

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That did not stop Trump from commandeering the US Post Office<\/u> with instructions to deliver mail ballots only to people on Trump-approved, Trump-purged voter lists. Trump\u2019s \u201cENSURING CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION AND INTEGRITY IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS\u201d Executive Order<\/u>, issued March 31, 2026, is his bold scheme to wrest election control from the states, which are Constitutionally vested with that authority, to transfer it to the federal government, which is not. On May 29,<\/u>an eagerly compliant United States Postal Service issued proposed rules<\/u> to effectuate Trump\u2019s EO. , a federal judge ruled that \u201cno federal law permits (Trump) to control mail-in voting through U.S.P.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s fear of the midterms<\/u> and the accountability they threaten<\/u> is palpable. Alongside his unprecedented post office ploy, he has ordered FBI raids<\/u> and DOJ investigations<\/u> of democratic voter outreach organizations, as he teases the deployment<\/u>of armed federal agents to polling places. Sending armed troops to intimidate voters is, for obvious reasons, forbidden by federal law<\/u>, and has not been done by any US president since the Civil War<\/u> era.<\/p>\n

Trump is complementing these nefarious efforts with an all-out appropriation of state voter rolls<\/u>, from which he has extracted data to build a master federal data base which has also been ruled illegal<\/u>.<\/p>\n

A federal judge blocks Trump\u2019s Orwellian database<\/strong><\/p>\n

Threatening to cut funding to states that refuse to turn over their rolls, he has already sent federal agents to seize voter records in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan<\/u>. It\u2019s plain extortion: To avoid losing federal resources they have already paid into, states must agree to run their voter rolls through the administration\u2019s SAVE database<\/u> (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, not to be confused with Trump\u2019s SAVE America Act<\/u>), to verify citizenship. The SAVE database has been expanded, widely tested, and determined to be deeply flawed<\/u>. In St. Louis County alone, for example, roughly 35% of the people labeled noncitizens<\/u> were citizens who registered to vote at naturalization ceremonies.<\/p>\n

Trump has been using states\u2019 voter roll data to build an illegal, nationwide database of Americans\u2019 private information<\/u> including home addresses, social security numbers, and other confidential \u201cdata-mined\u201d information extracted by Palantir Technologies<\/u>, a data mining and analytics firm co-founded by JD Vance promoter Peter Thiel<\/u>. On Monday, a federal judge put a stop to it.<\/p>\n

In League of Women Voters v. DHS<\/em><\/u><\/em>,<\/em><\/em> US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled <\/u>that the federal government \u201cknowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote\u201d by utilizing an unauthorized voter-screening database. The court found the administration\u2019s actions presented \u201cmajor violations\u201d of the Privacy Act<\/u>, the Social Security Act<\/u>, and the .<\/p>\n

A closer look<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her landmark 75-page ruling<\/u>, Judge Sooknanan excoriated the Trump administration for ignoring federal privacy laws as it overhauled and expanded the SAVE system into what she characterized as a \u201cfaulty citizenship checker.\u201d The worst of her criticism was reserved for how recklessly the administration handled Americans\u2019 personal data to expand the program. She wrote that \u201cagencies were scrambling to comply with (Trump\u2019s March 31) Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification,\u201d and that in doing so, they \u201chaphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She found that the system specifically violated the Social Security Act\u2019s prohibition on disclosing Social Security numbers<\/u>. The judge sharply condemned real-world consequences, noting that (Republican) states had \u201cpartnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pointed to<\/u> concrete examples from Texas where naturalized citizens were wrongly flagged and had their registrations canceled or placed under review, but citizens in Texas are not alone. The SAVE system merged Social Security data<\/u> with immigration files extracted across multiple state and federal platforms, resulting in widespread data flaws and false positive matches. System studies revealed<\/u> faulty data matching, outdated records, and user compliance failures resulting in high rates of false positives. These flaws are systemic, flagging citizens as non-citizens across dozens of counties in multiple states.<\/p>\n

Big brother by any other name<\/strong><\/p>\n

In June of last year, NPR first reported on the federal government\u2019s massive expansion of SAVE<\/u> into a Big Brother tool; they also reported that DHS, in partnership with DOGE, had not followed public notice protocols required under the Privacy Act before it expanded the system. Such data integration, resulting in a federally sanctioned, nationwide master list, has never before existed.<\/p>\n

A centralized national database of Americans\u2019 personal information has long been opposed by privacy advocates<\/u>. Although political conservatives traditionally oppose mass data consolidation by the federal government, they set aside such objections for Trump. Conservative legislators strongly supported Trump\u2019s expansion of the SAVE program<\/u> as a tool to prevent non-citizens from voting after Trump and Fox News<\/u>falsely convinced them that fraudulent voting was widespread. It wasn\u2019t, and never has been<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Judge Sooknanan rejected the Justice Department\u2019s argument that only a small number of voters might be affected, calling it a \u201cred herring.\u201d She reiterated that the APA mandates<\/u> that a \u201creviewing court shall<\/em><\/em>. . . hold unlawful and set aside agency action\u201d that is in excess of statutory authority, contrary to law, unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious, or procedurally defective. Trump\u2019s unauthorized expansion of the SAVE program was all of those things, leading the judge to set aside and nullify the entire system.<\/p>\n

Her ruling concluded with a pointed moral declaration: since the federal government is using an unauthorized, faulty-by-design federal database to attack the sacred right to vote, courts should decline to \u2018stand idly by\u2019 while that happens.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Haake is a political analyst and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. She writes the free Substack, The Haake Take.<\/em><\/p>\n

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