Federal judge shuts down Trump voter purge database
Federal judge shuts down Trump voter purge database
- Tue, Jun 23 2026 at 4:23 PM
Mark, CREW just won a major legal victory.
A federal judge just struck down a Trump administration attempt to unlawfully meddle in elections and amass sensitive data from every person in the country.
Because of this win, the administration must end its attempts to overhaul a massive government database that could be used to target Americans for baseless investigations and facilitate unlawful voter roll purges.
CREW challenged this scheme in court on behalf of millions of Americans. We argued that the database was deeply flawed and illegal—posing a direct threat not only to our privacy rights but also to the fundamental right to vote and indeed our democracy.
And the court agreed with us, explaining:
“All 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. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”We sued in response to efforts by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to unlawfully transform DHS’s SAVE system into a national citizenship database by pooling SSA data known to be unreliable.
Some states were using that data to purge voter rolls, meaning eligible voters were being wrongfully purged based on inaccurate data from the illegally overhauled SAVE system.
This unlawful data consolidation wasn’t just a massive privacy and security risk—it also threatened to disenfranchise even more eligible voters than it already has.
Mark, the American people should be able to trust their government with sensitive information. They should not have to worry that it will collect it and abuse access to it to threaten their right to vote, as the Trump administration attempted to do.
CREW took action to protect Americans’ privacy, defend voting rights and hold the Trump administration accountable—and we won. This win will prevent voters from being unlawfully purged from voter rolls and targeted by this broken and illegal system.
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