- Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S.
- Banned From Voting: In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens.
- Texas Confusion: As errors emerged in SAVE data, local clerks said the state hadn’t provided them with clear guidance and worried about disenfranchising eligible citizens.
As designed.
‘Accident’. 🙄
Given that only 22 noncitizens over the course of like 10 years (can’t remember the exact statistic) tried to vote, the way to get the best accuracy would be to just hard code the answer to “yes, they can vote”. Then you get over 99.99% accuracy.
From the article:
At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.
I’m not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won’t change anything. Is anyone going to think “I’m going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend my free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect”?
As European I’m so confused by this. You just show your state ID and that’s it, they check on paper that you voted, then you put your voting papers into the box.
You’re are rightly confused. This is all theatrics by the far right to penalize liberal areas. Areas they deem as high risk of fraud or illegals, in other words left leaning states and counties.
They just made it so not all state IDs count.
All animals are equal, some are more equal
Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.
In large minority districts of entrenched Republican enclaves
“mistakenly” flags democrat registered voters? I can only assume
“It’s only rigged when we lose” - maga
Seems like it’s working as they intended then.
The source of the bad data was a Department of Homeland Security tool called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE.
Once used mostly to check immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits, SAVE has undergone a dramatic expansion over the last year at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has long falsely claimed that millions of noncitizens lurk on state voter rolls, tainting American elections.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security in charge of a program to check if people can get benefits?
That was always the plan
“Mistakenly”
Turns out, they were just using this meme as their requirements document.
You know how satire works, right? It’s based on existing reality.
“Mistakenly”. Bugs are the kind of things that can easily explain away intent to mess stuff up.
“Mistakes”.
Cue Ron Howard voiceover.
So if it says I can’t vote because I’m not a us citizen and my state bans me from voting for it, am I off the hook on taxes?
No taxation without representation, right?
Logically yes, but these are not logical times.
Repeatedly checking the tool results in massive numbers of mistakes.
If you check the same person twice, the odds of a false positive increase exponentially.
