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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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