Appeals court maintains blockade on DHS using database to check state voter rolls

A federal appeals court has ruled to keep in place a lower court blockade on the Department of Homeland Security using its SAVE database to check voter rolls, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to help states boot noncitizens from their registration lists.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 2-1 decision, said the database — officially known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — can spit back false negatives, or cases where it wrongly identifies a citizen as a noncitizen.