US top court allows Trump to use controversial voter verification system
- Voting rights groups have warned system may falsely identify voters as non-citizens, leading to disenfranchisement.
- The United States Supreme Court has allowed the administration of US President Donald Trump to use a controversial voter verification system just weeks away from the midterm election in November.
- The court’s emergency order on Friday allows the Department of Homeland Security to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, programme in its efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on state voter rolls.
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- Voting rights groups have warned system may falsely identify voters as non-citizens, leading to disenfranchisement.
- The United States Supreme Court has allowed the administration of US President Donald Trump to use a controversial voter verification system just weeks away from the midterm election in November.
- The court’s emergency order on Friday allows the Department of Homeland Security to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, programme in its efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on state voter rolls.
Sources: Al Jazeera