Election 2026 Voter Lists

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died. The effort is fueling a push for more aggressive purges of state voter rolls before the November elections. But thousands of hits using a federal program known as SAVE include mistakes. In Texas, Anthony Nel's registration lapsed last fall while he obtained a new passport to document his citizenship as an immigrant from South Africa. At least 25 states, most controlled by Republicans, have used SAVE to check their voter rolls. Critics say outdated and incomplete data will lead to eligible voters being wrongly disenfranchised.