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US election security and voting regulation disputes

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has introduced new mandates for random paper ballot audits during midterm elections. This initiative follows warnings from Secretary Markwayne Mullin regarding potential supply chain vulnerabilities, specifically the use of Chinese-manufactured components in voting machines that could allow hackers to compromise infrastructure. In a separate legal development, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that had blocked an executive order restricting mail-in voting. This allows the government to proceed with requirements for DHS to build state-specific citizen lists and directs the Postal Service to deliver ballots only to individuals on those lists. However, a federal appeals court later upheld a ban on the administration using the DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to check voter rolls. The D.C. Circuit Court ruled in a 2–1 decision that using the system would violate privacy laws by disclosing sensitive personal information and raised concerns that data inaccuracies could lead to the cancellation of eligible voters' registrations. Following this ruling, President Donald Trump has petitioned the Supreme Court to reinstate the SAVE program. The administration seeks to utilize an expanded version of the system, which incorporates Social Security records and bulk data uploads, to identify non-citizen voters. U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer argued in a filing that the current restriction “threatens the integrity of upcoming elections.” Conversely, critics maintain the program risks disenfranchisement by producing inaccurate results that could misidentify eligible citizens as non-citizens.

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