by Geoff Earle at Daily Mail
The Trump administration has quietly assembled a new searchable database of U.S. citizens.
The program is designed help state election officials cross-check voter registrants across the country to ensure only U.S. citizens are able to cast ballots.
It’s an initiative that follows former DOGE head Elon Musk‘s efforts to gain access to Social Security Administration and other agency data.
And it’s likely to be opposed by Democrats and also others concerned that American voters’ data could be breached or compromised.
The administration speedily constructed the system in just a matter of months after Trump issued an executive order directing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to create a system to ensure only citizens vote in elections.
State officials should ‘access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote,’ the order states.
It goes on to say that they should gain access without having to pay a fee.
A detailed report on the new system by National Public Radio calls it a ‘sea change’ in existing policy to provide a roster of U.S. citizens, and a previously ‘third rail’ policy move that the nation has eschewed in the past.
Experts questioned the accuracy of a system assembled so quickly…
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