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Vilifying immigrants and echoing the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory that asserts the left is trying to “import” voters to take the place of white Americans is a widespread attempt to purge people, including U.S. citizens, from voter rolls.
Judges continue to thwart many of these efforts, but even halted purges or lawsuit spread the lie of widespread noncitizen voting, and they could intimidate voters who fear being punished despite being valid voters.
There is already a federal service for confirming citizenship status. It’s known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements service, or SAVE, and multiple states have used it for over a decade for list maintenance.
Last year, during a podcast taping with Trump allies Steve Bannon and Kari Lake, Rudy Giuliani admitted to a “dirty trick”:
“So they went through East Harlem, which is all Hispanic, and they gave out little cards, and the card said, ‘If you come to vote, make sure you have your green card because [the Immigration and Naturalization Service] are picking up illegals.’ So they spread it all over the Hispanic...” Giuliani trailed off. “That’s the way we kept down the Hispanic vote,” he added later, before correcting himself at Lake’s urging. “The Hispanic illegal vote, which takes away the Hispanic legal vote.”
