SAVE has rules that States have to funnel voter data to D.C.

[applegrove]

Another reason to call your Senator and tell them to vote "No" on the SAVE Act.

3/ Thank you to @buckscountybeacon.com for publishing my new article about the Trump-backed so-called “Save America Act” & why it threatens election security nationwide. #ProtectOurVotes #NoOnSAVE

— Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T22:42:04.581Z

[Deuxcents]

1. Will we get the actual bill as it is being pursued so voters can see the details?

[applegrove]

2. I don't know how to see the bill. I'm in Canada.

[dweller]

4. HR 7296

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr7296/summary




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[Deuxcents]

7. Thank you. Bookmarked

[dweller]

8. Actually , this is Senate version

It’s identical to House version
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s3752/text

According to Govtrack , it has 0% of being enacted .



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[Deuxcents]

9. Well, I'm counting on that 0%

[FakeNoose]

3. "Why the Trump-Backed Save America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide"

Link: https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/02/why-the-trump-backed-save-america-act-threatens-election-security-nationwide/

Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump administration.

by Jennifer Cohn | February 26, 2026

A foundational rule of computer security is to never create a “single point of failure,” meaning a centralized system or node whose compromise would cause widespread damage. In a country that relies on computers to run elections and maintain voter rolls, that principle is crucial. No American election should depend on a centralized chokepoint that a corrupt insider, reckless contractor, or hacker could exploit or expose to disrupt voting nationwide.

Yet that is precisely what the Trump-backed so-called “Save America Act” would do. Buried in the bill is a little-noticed mandate requiring every state to transmit its complete voter registration rolls to the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—currently led by Kristi Noem—for screening through the agency’s much-criticized “SAVE” voter-purge system. This would result in an unprecedented concentration of power and risk inside a single system controlled by the Trump administration.

The legislation mandates (on page 15, Section 4(b)) that within 30 days of enactment, each state “shall submit” its official list of registered voters to the DHS for comparison through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, or SAVE, to identify and remove alleged noncitizens after “notice” and an “opportunity” to provide documentary proof of citizenship.

The bill does not define what constitutes adequate notice or how long voters would have to respond. In practice, those supposed protections could prove illusory. As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its “SAVE” voter purge system.

- more at link -

Holy shit!!!!

[Lovie777]

5. will not pass..................

also CNN is dead so wo WB.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[Ms. Toad]

10. Voter registration data is public information.

Surprised how many people believe it is private.

[applegrove]

11. Then why would they put it in an Act? I mean if it is public information

why is it not in D.C. now?

[Ms. Toad]

12. No idea.

But here's the link to Ohio's data - available to everyone with internet. It contains name, registration date, birth date, party affiliation, address, and which elections you've voted in (maybe even more information- its been a month or so since I checked). https://www6.ohiosos.gov/ords/f?p=VOTERFTP:HOME::::::

Feel free to download data and check.

Every state has some version of this. How it is accessed varies somewhat by state, but it is publicly available. Those lists are how party get-out-the vote efforts work, postcard campaigns, etc. That's where the data comes from - it isn't just random calls or mailings - voters who vote in the Democratic primary, for example, but don't vote regularly (which can be identified from the party affiliation and the voting record) are targeted for GOTV efforts.

[applegrove]

13. Does it include 4 digits of social security numbers?

[Ms. Toad]

14. I don't recall.

Each state collects, and makes available, slightly different data. Pretty much universal is name, address, primary ballots voted, voting record (which elections you've voted in), registration date.

You could download a county from the link I sent and check. (I downloaded my county a while ago. I'm not being evasive - I just don't remember and have already deleted the file.)

[applegrove]

15. No problem. I am on my phone and do not want to download that much data.

I'll leave my op up.

[Ms. Toad]

16. I don't remember how long it took to download my county -

I checked every few minutes and it was still downloading, so I forgot about it and went back later in the day to check on it.

[Quiet Em]

19. Here's an explanation

The DOJ power grab could kick eligible voters off the rolls
The DOJ is claiming authority under the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) and Civil Rights Act of 1960 to try to seize state voter data. It is weaponizing laws that were passed to protect the vote in order to try to suppress it. While the NVRA and the Civil Rights Act do give the DOJ some limited authority to oversee states’ list maintenance procedures, as a federal court recently held, they do not give the DOJ the power to demand states’ full, unredacted voter rolls or to select voters to be kicked off the rolls.

The Constitution gives states the authority to run elections, not the federal government, and states have reliable processes to maintain voter rolls on an ongoing basis — bipartisan consensus agrees on this. Nevertheless, a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) sent to more than a dozen states would give the DOJ the power to handpick voters for removal, an unprecedented move that could give the agency boundless power beyond its scope, and leave hundreds or thousands of people disenfranchised.

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/dojs-attempt-to-acquire-state-voter-data-explained/

[AZJonnie]

17. Yes, but the GQP wants the SAVE system (controlled by Noem) to be final arbiter of whether

a voter is removed from the roles. Sure, the Feds could get that information anytime, but this is taking their authority to conduct purges to another level.

[Ms. Toad]

22. My response was directed at what the OP called out -

Sending the voter information to the Feds. There have been a number of posts recently expressing outrage about the feds potentially getting their hands on voter information.

I agree that the feds have no business purging state voter rosters.

My point was solely to point out/repeat the information that voter rosters are public information, since I've seen a lot of posts recently indication people believe it is private.

[AZJonnie]

23. I meant for my post to be simply an addendum to what you were saying, I see now it was not the best phrasing

I knew what you meant/why you were making that particular point, friend, and I of all people love that sort of post, clarifications on underlying facts are always good

[dsc]

18. I think the issue was using the data base to filter the rolls.

[MaeScott]

20. ...or see who doesn't vote and is registered, voila! Voted

[Ms. Toad]

21. That is an issue,

But that is not what the OP (and many others recently have specifically called out - and have been outraged about)