{"id":279090,"date":"2026-06-22T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/federal-judge-rules-against-trumps-voter-verification-tool-citing-privacy-concerns-indianapolis-news-indiana-weather-indiana-traffic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:15:21","slug":"federal-judge-rules-against-trumps-voter-verification-tool-citing-privacy-concerns-indianapolis-news-indiana-weather-indiana-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/federal-judge-rules-against-trumps-voter-verification-tool-citing-privacy-concerns-indianapolis-news-indiana-weather-indiana-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules against Trump’s voter verification tool citing privacy concerns – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal judge rules against Trump’s voter verification tool citing privacy concerns – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-22 21:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to nationalize elections can no longer be used.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans\u2019 sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,\u201d Sooknanan said in an order explaining the decision. \u201cThis Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing Americans\u2019 personal identifying information and that the federal agencies that created the SAVE program \u201cknew that the database violates those statutory protections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision is a major\u00a0legal setback\u00a0for President Donald Trump in\u00a0his efforts\u00a0to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide\u00a0crackdown on having noncitizens illegally\u00a0on state voter rolls. The modified SAVE system, which critics had referred to as an unlawful centralized federal database of voter information, had been a key pillar of the\u00a0second election executive order\u00a0the Republican president signed earlier this year. The ruling leaves its future uncertain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist,\u201d James Percival, general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, said of the ruling in a social media post.<\/p>\n

The department referred to his post as its comment on the ruling. The Department of Justice did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Voting by noncitizens was already rare<\/h4>\n

The executive order seeking to create a national voter list…<\/p>\n

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