CyberScoop: The SAVE database was already a headache for states. Now it’s fueling Trump’s voter fraud allegations.

If placing additional information in the honest and careful hands of state election officials is a boon, many interviewed for this article expressed concern over the ease with which such a gift could be perverted. Kabbas Azhar, an Equal Justice Works fellow with the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the Trump administration’s willingness to violate personal privacy by consolidating the personal information of Americans, along with its track record of flouting due process, should illustrate why SAVE “has grave implications.” 

“It will be no surprise when a citizen’s right to vote is inevitably undermined by mistakes in the system,” Azhar wrote in an email. “There is no accountability, no explicit method outlined for how citizens can contest adverse decisions.” 

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