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True85% confidence7 sourcesSep 29, 2026A federal judge in D.C. found in June that the SAVE system violated federal privacy laws and that the Department of Homeland Security had overstepped its authority.Said by CJudge Sparkle Sooknanan of the D.C. federal court ruled on June 22, 2026 that the revamped SAVE system violated federal privacy laws, and AP and Ballotpedia report she also found it exceeded what Congress allowed (centralization barred by statute, violation of rules governing administrative action). The Supreme Court stayed that ruling on September 25, 2026, but the claim concerns what the judge found in June, so it stands as of the post date.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True85% confidenceSep 29, 2026The Trump administration overhauled the SAVE system last year to link it to Social Security data and allow bulk queries for citizenship data on all Americans.Said by CSources confirm that in 2025 the Trump administration overhauled the SAVE system, linking it to Social Security Administration data and enabling bulk queries that let states check citizenship across the population. The main imprecision is that NPR describes True90% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026In Maricopa County, Arizona, the SAVE system flagged 60 people as non-citizens, but county prosecutors found that only eight of those individuals were actually non-citizens.Said by CMultiple independent reports say the Maricopa County Recorder used the federal SAVE database, which flagged 60 registered voters who had cast ballots, and that County Attorney Rachel Mitchell's investigation found only eight were noncitizens (52 were citizens). The claim omits that the 60 were part of 207 people Heap flagged, and that the post's 'previously voted' qualifier was dropped, but these details do not change the core claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True92% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026Federal law prohibits systematic voter purges in the 90 days before a federal election.Said by CThe National Voter Registration Act's Section 8 requires states to complete any program that systematically removes ineligible voters no later than 90 days before a federal election, and the DOJ, AP, Reuters and NPR sources all confirm this. The post's paraphrase matches the law, and the claim's wording is a faithful paraphrase of it.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026The National Voter Registration Act was passed in the early nineties.Said by BThe NVRA was signed into law on May 20, 1993, which falls within the early nineties as the claim states. The extraction is faithful to the passage, which says the NVRA was "passed in the early nineties."True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026Virginia has same-day voter registration.Said by CMultiple primary sources (Virginia Elections site, Richmond, Fairfax County, James City County, and the U.S. EAC) confirm that since the 2022 General Election Virginia allows eligible voters to register in person and vote a provisional ballot through Election Day, which is same-day registration. The claim as extracted faithfully matches the post, which adds that registration is possible on Election Day and requires a provisional ballot; the 'provisional ballot' detail is a qualifier the claim omits but does not contradict the core assertion.True75% confidence7 sourcesSep 29, 2026In 2024, Virginia used the SAVE system to remove voters from registration rolls in the period before the election.Said by CSources support the core claim: Virginia's 2024 program, run during the 90-day quiet period before the November election, removed about 1,600 registrations, and a Supreme Court filing states the DMV queried the SAVE database to identify individuals, with removals forwarded to local registrars during the Quiet Period. The SAVE link rests mainly on that one primary filing; Reuters, AP, and DOJ confirm the in-period removals but describe the trigger as DMV data.True75% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026A UC San Diego poll found that non-white voters were significantly more likely than white voters to say that voting in the midterms would put them at risk of being questioned by federal officials.Said by BThe UC San Diego survey reported in September 2026 found that voters of color, including Asian American, Hispanic, and Black respondents, were far more likely than white respondents to worry that voting could expose them to questioning by federal immigration officers despite being citizens (roughly 24-39% versus 9%). The claim's 'significantly more likely' framing matches how KPBS described the finding, and the post's own passage is not counted as corroboration.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True75% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026The highest recorded midterm election turnout in history is approximately 50%.Said by BThe sources consistently identify the highest recorded US midterm turnout as roughly 50%, from 2018 (about 49–50.3% of eligible voters per the US Elections Project) and matching 1914 (50.4%). The claim departs from the passage only in dropping the speaker's 'record-breaking' framing, which is not a material change. Census data for 2018 (53% of citizen voting-age population) uses a different measure but still falls near 50%.True93% confidence9 sourcesSep 29, 2026The Supreme Court ruled three times on whether Missouri would use the 2025 congressional map or the previous map.Said by BMultiple tier-1 outlets (AP, Reuters) and the Supreme Court's own order record that the Court ruled a third time in September 2026 on whether Missouri would use the 2025 map or the 2022 map, and the extracted claim matches the post's wording. The sources do not contradict any element of the claim.True90% confidence8 sourcesSep 29, 2026The Supreme Court decided that the 2025 Missouri congressional map will not take effect for the 2026 election cycle.The Supreme Court on September 25, 2026 unsigned-ordered that the 2022 map, not the 2025 Missouri map, must be used in the 2026 congressional election, leaving the 2025 map out of effect for this cycle; multiple tier1 and tier2 outlets (AP, CBS, NBC, and the Supreme Court opinion itself) confirm this. The claim departs only slightly from the passage's wording, and the core assertion holds as of 2026-09-29.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 29, 2026The 2025 Missouri congressional map was passed by Republicans at the request of Donald Trump.Said by BMultiple tier1 and other sources confirm that Missouri Republicans passed the 2025 congressional map at Trump's urging: AP describes it as a map 'backed by President Donald Trump,' Reuters says it was adopted as part of a broader effort backed by Trump, and ABC and Washington Sun report Trump encouraged the redraw and that Republican Rep. Dirk Deaton spoke with the White House. The claim's 'at President Trump's request' is consistent with this record; the map was later blocked from use for 2026 by the Supreme Court, which does not affect whether it was passed.