The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights asked a court to halt the checks. Its complaint says the databases hold old or wrong data. That bad data would flag naturalized citizens as ineligible to vote, the group says. It also says Congress never approved the program. Executive director Angelica Salas called it "voter intimidation."
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The matching runs on outdated or inaccurate databases that would wrongly flag naturalized citizens as ineligible.
Explicitly attributed to the plaintiff group CHIRLA as a litigation allegation; ProPublica reporting on erroneous SAVE flags supports plausibility but the story frames it as the group's claim.
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Congress never authorized the program.
Attributed to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights as a legal contention, contested by the DOJ OLC opinion in sources.
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The administration's broader push is seeking evidence of noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms.
Desk's own characterization of federal motive with no speaker, document or outlet named in the story text.