citizenship
Every record this desk has filed under citizenship, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
When a database decides who is a citizen, its mistakes become the voter's paperwork. Check your record before it is checked against you.
On September 25 the Supreme Court stayed the order that had set aside the government's modified SAVE program, so state and local election offices may again run registered voters' names, birth dates and Social Security numbers against Social Security records, and must ask anyone the system cannot confirm to prove citizenship. The Court's own reason the challengers could sue is a naturalized citizen in Louisiana whose Social Security record still does not show it. The majority and the dissent split sharply on the law and on whose harm counts. Neither disputed the mechanism: a stale field in a file becomes a letter to a person. The voter roll is a database now, and the lesson reaches past elections. When eligibility is decided by matching you against a record you never see, that record's error is your burden, and the cheapest defense is to check and correct it before anyone runs the match. Here is what the 90-day federal rule does and does not stop, how Social Security says to update a citizenship record, and where to confirm your registration before November 3.
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The Supreme Court let the Homeland Security Department's SAVE program go back to checking registered voters' citizenship against Social Security records by pausing a June 22 ruling that had set the modified program aside; the majority said the 90-day federal moratorium on systematic removals limits the stay's potential impact before November 3 but does not bar one-by-one inquiries, and three justices dissented.
On September 25 the Supreme Court granted the Department of Homeland Security's application in No. 26A308 and stayed a June 22 district court order that had set aside the modified SAVE program. That version checks voters' names, dates of birth and full or partial Social Security numbers against Social Security Administration records and allows bulk searches; when it cannot confirm citizenship, the agency that asked must request proof from the voter to register or stay registered. The unsigned majority found the challengers likely have standing through a naturalized citizen in Louisiana whose Social Security record is out of date, but said their claims likely fail because 8 U.S.C. 1373 authorizes DHS to request and receive citizenship information from other agencies. It said the National Voter Registration Act's 90-day bar limits the stay's potential impact before federal elections, while individualized inquiries remain permitted. Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, dissented. The stay is not a merits ruling; the government's appeal continues in the D.C. Circuit. The general election is November 3, 2026.
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