ELECTION PROTECTION | COMBATING VOTER SUPPRESSION
SAVE System and Voter Roll List Maintenance
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system is a government tool that attempts to verify immigration and citizenship status. Recent changes to the system have introduced highly unreliable citizenship information and resulted in other states having eligible voters’ citizenship wrongly questioned.
This letter urges the North Carolina State Board of Elections to exercise extreme caution or reconsider its decision altogether to use the federal SAVE system for voter roll maintenance. It warns that those recent changes make it more likely to wrongly flag eligible U.S. citizens as noncitizens — potentially impacting their ability to vote.
Noncitizen voting in North Carolina is exceedingly rare and existing laws already provide strong safeguards against it, making the proposed use of SAVE unnecessary and likely to expand the risk of error and disenfranchisement.
Read our and the Fair Elections Center’s letter to the NCSBE.