With the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expansion of no-cost accessibility to the systematic alien verification for entitlement (SAVE) program to be available to any state election official down to the county level, two conservative lawmakers have introduced a bill which would require counties to check and maintain voter rolls against the SAVE database.
Per the DHS, SAVE is an online service for government agencies to verify immigration status and U.S. citizenship of applicants seeking benefits or licenses.
Existing law already requires the state’s coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database to the department of safety’s database to ensure non-U.S. citizens are not registered to vote in the state and notify county election officials of any registered voters who may not be citizens.
