“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens

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• CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a feature, not a bug.

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is how political cleansing begins. Once the system is turned on, voting for anything slightly left will cast you as a criminal of the state.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This has happened all over there US already. Someone challenges your right to vote and it’s your job to prove your eligibility. Can’t show up to your appointment? No ID? No bills going to that address? Only have a PO Box address? No voting for you!

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And still, americans believe the democrats will win… Even after everything in the past, everything being said in the present, they’re still only going to protest.

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    • ruekk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What do you want Americans to do? Start an open insurrection? Do you really realize how many thousand of people would die the instant a semi-armed civilian led force tried to fight back?

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thats the whole point, oops, you cant vote, sucks you were voting against us anyway…

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  • VivianRixia@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But also, oops, you cant vote, sucks that you were going to vote for us anyway

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Given that only 22 noncitizens over the course of like 10 years (can’t remember the exact statistic) tried to vote, the way to get the best accuracy would be to just hard code the answer to “yes, they can vote”. Then you get over 99.99% accuracy.

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  • pageflight@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From the article:

    At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won’t change anything. Is anyone going to think “I’m going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend me free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect”?

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As designed.

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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘Accident’. 🙄

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• starblursd@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “mistakenly” flags democrat registered voters? I can only assume

  “It’s only rigged when we lose” - maga

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In large minority districts of entrenched Republican enclaves

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Turns out, they were just using this meme as their requirements document.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know how satire works, right? It’s based on existing reality.

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• Emi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As European I’m so confused by this. You just show your state ID and that’s it, they check on paper that you voted, then you put your voting papers into the box.

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  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They just made it so not all state IDs count.

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    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All animals are equal, some are more equal

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re are rightly confused. This is all theatrics by the far right to penalize liberal areas. Areas they deem as high risk of fraud or illegals, in other words left leaning states and counties.

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• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was always the plan

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• Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Mistakenly”. Bugs are the kind of things that can easily explain away intent to mess stuff up.

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• TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Mistakes”.

  Cue Ron Howard voiceover.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Voting Blue? No Vote For You!

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The source of the bad data was a Department of Homeland Security tool called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE.

  Once used mostly to check immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits, SAVE has undergone a dramatic expansion over the last year at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has long falsely claimed that millions of noncitizens lurk on state voter rolls, tainting American elections.

  Why is the Department of Homeland Security in charge of a program to check if people can get benefits?

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• Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems like it’s working as they intended then.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Repeatedly stopping people and checking the tool results in massive numbers of mistakes.

  If you check the same person twice, the odds of a false positive increase exponentially.

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• Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So if it says I can’t vote because win not a us citizen and my state bans me from voting for it, am I off the hook on taxes?

  No taxation without representation, right?

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Logically yes, but these are not logical times.

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re probably using AI…

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• LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “mistakenly”

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• LibertyLizard@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s almost like there’s almost zero non-citizens voting or something…

  Not that there’s even a need to prevent them from voting.

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• codapine@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Task failed successfully.

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• Rhoeri@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As it was intended to do.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s ok, so does the government

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• amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that the point? Ensure there aren’t that many voters? I’d say it works as I tended.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When it’s not working, it’s working.

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