North Carolina election board's GOP majority approves sharing voter data with DHS

The North Carolina State Board of Elections’s Republican majority voted Thursday to move forward with using a federal immigration database to check the state’s voter rolls — an escalation in the board’s ongoing effort to scrutinize voter rolls that could put eligible voters at risk.

The decision came during a public meeting where the board approved new rules to identify and potentially remove voters suspected of being noncitizens using the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) SAVE database — a federal system that has been criticized for inaccuracies and incomplete records.

The measure passed on a 3–2 party-line vote, with Republicans on the board voting in favor and Democrats opposing.

“I’m totally against this rule, I vote no,” Democratic board member Jeff Carmon said.



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