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Will Supreme Court Ruling Make It Harder for Noncitizens to Vote?

The Supreme Court’s Monday decision cleared the way for the Department of Homeland Security to establish a state-by-state list of eligible voters based on a crosscheck of citizenship data, the Social Security database, and other government information.

“The DHS can determine who is eligible to vote because the federal government does not want to be complicit in fraud through sending mail-in ballots to noncitizens,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal. “So it makes sense as to why the administration would want to prioritize this.”

The list would be shared with states, but states are not obligated to use the list to police voter rolls.

High-profile Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias expressed alarm over the high court’s ruling in a statement on his website, Democracy Docket.

Regarding the DHS list of eligible citizens, Elias said, “It orders the federal government to compile a list of Trump-approved eligible voters to be sent to the states.”

“Under the order, the USPS is to conduct a rulemaking whereby it dictates to states how mail-in........

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