Federal judge blocks Trump SAVE voter database (opens in new tab)

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington ruled Monday that the Trump administration unlawfully overhauled the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE system into a tool for checking state voter rolls, and barred use of the modified system in its current form. The judge sided with voting-rights and privacy groups that challenged the changes, finding that the system aggregated sensitive personal data in ways that risked eligible voters being wrongly removed from registration lists. SA...