The recent news of illegal aliens registering in mass in NJ, and then voting, is not a surprise and is almost expected.

New Jersey is one of many States that DO NOT use the free Federal SAVE system to check for illegal aliens in their voter registrations or existing voter rolls.

SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides immigration status and U.S. citizenship information. SAVE only returns verification information. The decision to register or remove a voter remains with state or local election officials.

As of June 30th, there are 26 states using SAVE for voter-registration or voter-list-maintenance purposes. It processed 198 million cases in 2025.

The remaining 24 states have no public info that their election authority uses SAVE. Most of these 24 states are left-leaning.

States that are using the SAVE citizen verification system.

New Jersey joined the non-profit ERIC in August of 2022 to help clean their voter rolls. Secretary of State Tahesha Way said, “ERIC is a powerful step to strengthen New Jersey’s elections by increasing our ability to support eligible voters while also improving the accuracy of our voting rolls.”

Obviously, this isn’t working.

Their agreement (Section B, pg. 17) with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) does not allow NJ, or any other members of ERIC, to communicate or notate to ERIC that a person is a non-citizen.

This supposed sophisticated voter cleaning operation has in its by-laws that they do not want information that a person is a non-citizen. What’s even more bizarre, ERIC doesn’t use the SAVE system.

ERIC by-laws do not allow non-citizen info.

After President Trump was elected, he mandated enhancements to the SAVE system. There were several major changes. You could now bulk process voter lists. It now uses SSA data during citizenship verification. It now allows searches by Name, DOB, and last four of SS# instead of just the Alien Registration Number or I-94 number.

The SAVE system used to cost $1 per transaction. If you wanted to check, let’s say, 40,000 voters on your rolls, you would get a bill for $40 grand. These kinds of fees prevented many election administrators from using the system in bulk. Trump made it free and encouraged bulk processing.

Trump mandated enhancements to the SAVE system.

The SAVE system is not a database. It sits on top of the Verification Information System (VIS), which queries and consolidates information from numerous federal immigration and citizenship databases. This includes everything from flight information, benefits applications, citizenship processing, and much more.

Various systems feed information into the Verification Information System (VIS), which is the technology platform underlying SAVE. The image below is an extensive list of those data sources.

Leftists pushed back and filed lawsuits to stop the use and expansion of SAVE for elections. The number of leftist groups pushing back showed a clear coordination.

Underlying data sources that make up SAVE verification system.

Last month, radical U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan blocked the use of the enhanced SAVE system. She sided with leftist groups like the League of Women Voters. The judge claimed SAVE violated privacy rights and that citizens could be incorrectly identified. The judge overlooked that mistakes happen with every government database.

Earlier this month, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida OVERRULED Sooknanan’s highly controversial order by a far-left, foreign-born activist judge in Washington D.C., officially REINSTATING President Donald Trump’s powerhouse election security system.

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system upgrades, which allow patriot states to instantly screen voter rolls and purge illegal aliens, is back online.

However, Judge Sooknanan’s June 22 opinion still remains in effect unless stayed or reversed on appeal.

The federal government appealed that decision to the D.C. Circuit.

Judge Wetherell’s Florida order also remains in effect in his case, creating a direct conflict between two district courts that may ultimately require resolution by the D.C. Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, or the U.S. Supreme Court if the conflict persists.

James Percival, general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, which maintains the SAVE database, criticized the ruling as misguided. James said, “It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist.”

Michael Morley, a professor at the Florida State University College of Law, said the ruling “Restricts the government’s ability to take advantage of all of the most accurate sources of information it has in order, in most cases, to confirm people’s citizenship status.”

Rep. Abraham Hamedeh (R-AZ) rightly submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives to impeach radical Judge Sooknanan on July 9th.

New Jersey isn’t alone with the recurring problem of registering anyone, even illegals. Many other States have had to disclose they are registering non-citizens automatically.

As we mentioned above, members of ERIC are hamstrung with bylaws that restrict the use of tagging non-citizens.

So, was the ERIC system purposely designed to hide illegals among our American citizen voter rolls?

Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards.

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