Inside DHS’s Push to Clean Voter Rolls Before Election Day | Ep. 292

Election integrity depends on securing voter rolls by identifying non-citizens and deceased registrants through the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Despite the availability of this free tool, many states refuse to participate, often citing privacy concerns while simultaneously sharing unredacted voter and motor vehicle data with partisan non-governmental organizations like the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Heather Honey, a senior counselor at the Department of Homeland Security, explains that states can proactively segregate potentially ineligible ballots to prevent the dilution of legal votes. While federal election laws require modernization, current efforts focus on enforcing existing provisions and utilizing FEMA grants to incentivize states to adopt meaningful post-election manual audits and rigorous voter list maintenance. These measures aim to restore public confidence by ensuring that only eligible citizens participate in the electoral process.