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Alex Padilla and other Democrats say the GOP is pressing inflated concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to eligible voters. <\/p>\n<p>  <br \/>\n<audio id=\"audio-player\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-tts-cdn.api.scpnewsgrp.com\/cyberscoop\/85395\/english.openai.mp3\"><\/audio> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\">\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>0:00<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"tts-tooltip\">Learn more.<\/span> <span> This feature uses an automated voice, which may result in occasional errors in pronunciation, tone, or sentiment. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__cover-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"single-article__cover\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1\" class=\"single-article__cover-image wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg 6724w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=1536,1025 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=2048,1366 2048w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=252,168 252w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=505,337 505w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-2.jpg?resize=1264,843 1264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\"><figcaption> WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17: U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) walks to the Senate Chambers U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Padilla has returned to the U.S. Capitol with a bigger security detail and is set to make a speech on the Senate Floor, where he will discuss his removal from a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after trying to ask a question. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"69.988372093023\"><body readability=\"141.42520022883\"> <\/p>\n<p>As the Trump administration has sought to muscle through changes to election laws and rules across the country, Democrats in Congress have steadily escalated their concerns about the potential for disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n<p>At a public forum Wednesday held by Democratic lawmakers focused on elections and voter suppression, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., ranking member on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, issued a blunt charge at the White House and its Republican allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir goal is to amplify their false narrative of insecure elections to justify their power grabs and to make it harder to register to vote, to stay on the polls and to actually cast your ballot,\u201d Padilla said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Padilla was one of several Democrats and witnesses who accused Republicans \u2014 who did not participate in the forum \u2014 of inflating concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to swaths of votes, sometimes based on minor paperwork errors that took place decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Democrats\u2019 key witnesses was Allison Riggs, the Democratic North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice who had her narrow, 734-vote victory last year challenged in court by her Republican opponent Jefferson Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin and state GOP officials ultimately challenged 65,000 votes in four counties as illegal, including those belonging to people who didn\u2019t have driver\u2019s licenses or Social Security numbers on file and overseas voters. The challenge involved only voters in four Democratic-leaning counties, and only for Riggs\u2019 race. It did not challenge those voters\u2019 choices for the U.S. presidential and North Carolina gubernatorial elections.<\/p>\n<p>A winding court battle saw Riggs spend more than $2 million in court costs to prove that her tabulated lead \u2014 which survived two recounts \u2014 was legitimate. While a federal court eventually intervened to declare Riggs the winner, she told lawmakers that \u201cwe came perilously close to watching our systems of rules-based elections crumble before our eyes\u201d as state courts initially validated Griffin\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur state appellate courts were willing to give credence to the argument that the rules of an election could be changed after the election, to change the election outcome,\u201d Riggs said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She said she sees the legal battle over voter eligibility in her race as a blueprint for how similar challenges could be made in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe precedent in my case is at the district level,\u201d Riggs said. \u201cWe were prepared for it to go all the way [to the Supreme Court.] I think it is still likely [to happen again] absent our collective willingness to recognize this threat and take the appropriate steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janessa Goldbeck, CEO of the Vet Voice Foundation, which runs one of the largest<a href=\"https:\/\/vvfnd.org\/campaigns\/growing-the-veterans-vote\/\"> voter outreach programs<\/a> for military veterans and families, said many of the North Carolina voters who had their ballots flagged as suspicious in lawsuits from Griffin\u2019s campaign and the Trump Department of Justice were members of the military serving overseas who followed state laws.<\/p>\n<p>Riggs noted that her own parents were among the group of voters who had their eligibility questioned in Griffin\u2019s legal challenge, emphasizing that her father initially registered decades ago using his military ID and has shown a valid ID during every election he\u2019s voted in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump has publicly attacked these ballots and pushed conspiracy theories about them,\u201d Goldbeck said, in addition to disparaging those who registered through laws like the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act as taking advantage of a \u201cvoting loophole.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She also said current legislation being considered by Congress, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/22\">SAVE Act<\/a>, would require military voters and their families to register to vote in person using a passport, something that would be impossible for many people deployed overseas. <\/p>\n<p>Some observers have worried the Trump administration and GOP may be seeking to redefine how certain classes of voters and ballots are considered and handled by states and courts, chiefly by shifting the burden of proof away from the government and onto individual voters when it comes to validating citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration and Republicans have justified such changes as necessary to ensure American elections aren\u2019t tainted by noncitizen voting. Experts and post-election audits largely refute those charges, but GOP boosters have argued that even one noncitizen voting in a U.S. election is too many. <\/p>\n<p>In particular, they\u2019ve pointed to the administration\u2019s changes to the Systemic Aliens Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/voter-citizenship-verification-trump-save-database\/\">Those changes<\/a> include allowing states to search using Social Security numbers and to conduct \u201cbulk\u201d queries that can be matched against various state and federal databases.<\/p>\n<p>Just how USCIS and state election officials use this information when identifying voters for potential removal from state voter rolls remains to be seen \u2014 and experts say the amount of time and assistance states provide to help voters cure any paperwork problems will be critical. A <a href=\"https:\/\/fairelectionscenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Examining-Changes-to-USCISs-SAVE-System.pdf\">brief<\/a> by the Fair Elections Center this week questioned the accuracy of using Social Security numbers to validate citizenship information of voters, noting the Social Security Administration didn\u2019t even start requiring such information for applicants until 1972.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to VoteBeat, David Jennings, the technology and policy lead for SAVE at USCIS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votebeat.org\/2025\/07\/28\/save-immigration-database-nased-conference-oklahoma-city-election-officials\/\">reportedly told state<\/a> officials at an Oklahoma conference that the agency doesn\u2019t share SAVE data with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement or other agencies. He described SAVE as a \u201ctool\u201d for states to use when making decisions around a voter\u2019s registration status, not the sole criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is also suing states, sending them information requests and working with cooperative ones to build a massive query system across state data streams that experts say is likely to sweep in far more eligible voters and ballots than noncitizens registered to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, described these data requests as \u201ceither illegal or [an] attempt to effectuate illegal acts\u201d that violate the U.S. Privacy Act of 1972, which prohibits federal agencies from collecting and sharing large amounts of personal information on Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, policy blueprints like Project 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/whats-next-elections-under-project-2025-agenda\">propose<\/a> \u201cin plain view, a monstrous abuse of DOJ authority, pursuing faceless persecutions of elections officials\u201d that mirrors the White House\u2019s ongoing efforts to impose its will on state and local election rules, Levitt said.While most judges are pushing back, and election officials are largely standing firm in most states, Levitt worries that they will have to carry out their duties securing U.S. elections \u201cdespite, not alongside, our federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.4226086956522\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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{"id":7844,"date":"2025-07-30T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/?p=85395"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:39:21","slug":"senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/senate-democrats-call-trump-admins-focus-on-state-voter-rolls-a-pretext-for-disenfranchisement\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats call Trump admin\u2019s focus on state voter rolls a pretext for disenfranchisement"},"content":{"rendered":"