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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.
Also filed undervotingsocial-securitycitizenshiprecordsmethod
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found the challengers likely have standing through a naturalized citizen in Louisiana whose Social Security record is out of date, but said their claims likely fail because 8 U.S.C. 1373 authorizes DHS to request and receive citizenship information from other agencies.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.
Also filed undervotingelectionsdhssocial-securityprivacycitizenship
The Supreme Court says Missouri will elect its eight U.S. House members on November 3 inside the 2022 district lines, not the 2025 map used in the August primary, and tells the lower federal courts not to order otherwise; it is a stay, not a ruling on the merits.
In an unsigned five-page opinion in No. 26A388, People Not Politicians v. Onder, issued September 25, 2026, the Supreme Court stayed a federal district court's September 21 and September 22 injunctions, which in effect required Missouri to use its 2025 congressional map in the November 3 general election, along with the Eighth Circuit's September 21 mandate and September 22 order. On September 3 the Missouri Supreme Court had ruled that the 2025 map 'is not the law and has never been the law' and will not take effect unless voters approve it by referendum, leaving the 2022 map in force. Citing the Purcell principle, the Court said ballots using the 2022 map 'have been printed and mailed' and that absentee, military and overseas voting has begun. It also rejected the Eighth Circuit's view that the state court caused the late change, saying the Missouri Secretary of State 'was well aware' before the August primary that using the 2025 map 'carried significant risks'. The order notes no dissent and does not decide the constitutional question. Missouri's last day to register for the November election is October 7.
Also filed undermissouriredistrictingelectionscongressreferendum
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