President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is streamlining the government’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program in the hopes of eliminating non-citizen voting from elections.
On Monday, USCIS Director Joseph Edlow announced upgrades to the SAVE program, which allows states to verify that only American citizens are voting in federal elections.
Previously, when verifying voter eligibility, states would have to input all nine digits of a voter registrant’s Social Security Number. Now, thanks to the agency’s reforms, states will only be required to use the last four digits of a registrant’s Social Security Number.
“USCIS remains dedicated to eliminating barriers to securing the nation’s electoral process,” agency spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement:
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By allowing states to efficiently verify
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