Trump Administration Seeks Voter Roll Checks

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow it to use a revamped immigration database to verify state voter rolls, one of a series of steps increasing the federal government’s involvement in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Justice Department lawyers asked the court to halt a June ruling by a federal judge in Washington DC that blocked the mass voter verification system, which the judge said had been haphazardly assembled and contained unreliable citizenship data.

“The district court has issued an indefensible order that threatens the integrity of upcoming elections by vacating the federal government's authority to internally use Social Security data when fulfilling its duty to respond to requests by states to verify the citizenship of individuals for voting and other purposes”, Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing.

(Reuters, max)