A federal judge ruled on Monday that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalise elections can no longer be used.
US District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the programme, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.
