Judge halts Trump admin's plan to merge SSNs with citizenship data for voter checks
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from implementing a revised SAVE database that merges citizenship data with Social Security numbers, citing knowingly inaccurate data being shared with states and leading to wrongful purges of voter registrations, and ruling the move violated privacy protections and federal law.
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