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