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How new Supreme Court rulings could impact midterm elections
The justices let states use the expanded voter-verification database and blocked Missouri’s new congressional map after saying the change could cause electoral chaos.
- On Friday, the Supreme Court issued two election-related rulings, allowing states to use the Trump administration's revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database while rejecting a Missouri congressional map change.
- The Department of Homeland Security program, known as SAVE, aims to identify noncitizens to prevent election fraud. Since the administration expanded search capabilities last year, at least 67 million voter registrations have been scanned.
- Issuing a 6-3 emergency order, the high court lifted lower court restrictions on the database. Election law expert David Becker noted existing law blocks most states from systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days of an election.
- Justices blocked the Missouri redistricting plan, stating that implementing the change during an ongoing election "would usher in electoral chaos." The plan was designed to help Republicans gain an additional House seat.
- This decision ends the longest-running legal battle among roughly a dozen states. The ruling follows an earlier rejection of Trump's request to restrict mail ballot procedures, allowing states to proceed with normal processes this fall.
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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The election day is fast approaching, but the Supreme Court is still ruling on the rules; the last time it was this Friday, when it allowed states to use a tool backed by the Trump administration to detect the vote of non-citizens, a practice of which there is little evidence that it will happen widely. No one wants non-citizens to vote illegally, but the decision of the magistrates, less than two months after th…
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