2026-06-22T19:32:39.176Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：蒂尔尼·斯尼德
27分钟前
发布于 2026年6月22日 美国东部时间下午3:32
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内容摘要
- 一名联邦法官裁定，特朗普政府通过将社保数据纳入公民身份核查项目，违反了隐私保护规定。
- 该裁决叫停了政府使用升级后的系统识别州选民名册上的非公民。
- 选民权益倡导者表示，该项目可能错误标记符合资格的公民，并威胁他们的投票权。
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一名联邦法官周一表示，特朗普政府在全面改革公民数据项目以更积极地用于清除选民名册时，违反了联邦隐私保护规定。
美国地区法官斯帕克尔·苏克南南的这项裁决对唐纳德·特朗普总统在州选民名单中找出外国人的努力是重大打击——选民权益倡导者和选举官员表示，该举措可能错误牵连美国公民，危及合格选民的投票权。苏克南南的命令叫停了升级后数据系统的使用。
“总而言之，联邦政府明知故犯地践踏了美国公民的隐私权，这种行为威胁到神圣的投票权。本法院不能坐视不管，”苏克南南说道，她是乔·拜登总统任命的法官。
此案围绕着被称为SAVE——即“系统性外国人权益核查系统”——的联邦数据项目展开，长期以来，该项目一直被政府用于核查公共福利相关的公民身份，同时也向选举官员提供服务，用于检查选民名册中的非公民身份。
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在特朗普第二任期的最初几个月，他的政府扩大了该项目纳入的数据类型，新增了社保数据和其他机构来源的数据。
苏克南南在周一的裁决中写道，政府知道对SAVE系统的升级违反了国会通过的隐私保护条款，但仍执意推进，作为“响应一项旨在重塑联邦选举的行政命令的紧急举措”，该命令要求他们建立一个大规模选民核查系统。
自此次改革以来，政府不仅鼓励各州使用该系统，正如CNN周一报道的那样，如今还试图惩罚那些不使用该系统的州。
美国司法部还发起了前所未有的运动，要求各州提交未脱敏的选民登记档案，以便联邦政府能够对照公民身份数据项目核查选民名册。特朗普最近发布的另一项行政命令还指示国土安全部利用SAVE和其他联邦数据源，为每个州编制适龄投票公民名单。
目前尚不清楚这项新裁决将在实际层面如何影响这些项目，但其中一些举措已经在其他诉讼中面临法庭阻力。
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苏克南南审理的此案由多个选民权益组织和一个隐私团体提起。原告方辩称，他们的隐私权受到损害，其成员面临被错误认定为非公民的威胁，因为SAVE系统可能存在过时或不准确的问题。
“随着特朗普-万斯政府持续攻击投票权，这对美国人民和我们的民主来说是一场重要胜利，”代表原告的“民主前进”组织主席兼首席执行官斯凯·佩里曼说道。“本案核心的数据被非法整合，违反了旨在保护敏感个人信息的隐私法。”
Judge says Trump can’t use Social Security data for voter roll purges
2026-06-22T19:32:39.176Z / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
27 min ago
PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2026, 3:32 PM ET
The US District Court for the District of Columbia building, in Washington, DC, on April 27.
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Summary
- A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated privacy protections by expanding a citizenship verification program with Social Security data.
- The decision halts the government’s use of the enhanced system to identify noncitizens on state voter rolls.
- Voter advocates say the program can wrongly flag eligible citizens and threaten their ability to cast ballots.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
The Trump administration violated federal privacy protections when it overhauled a citizen data program so that it could be used more aggressively to purge voter rolls, a federal judge said Monday.
The ruling from US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is a major setback for President Donald Trump’s effort to find foreigners on state voter lists — an effort voter advocates and election officials say can wrongly ensnare citizens, risking the disenfranchisement of eligible voters. Sooknanan’s order halts the use of the expanded data system.
“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,” said Sooknanan, an appointee of President Joe Biden.
The case centered on the federal data program known as SAVE — or the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — that has long been used by the government to verify citizenship for public benefits, but has also been offered to election officials to check voter rolls for noncitizens.
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In the early months of Trump’s second term, his administration beefed up the program by expanding the types of data fed into the system, adding Social Security data and data from other agency sources.
Sooknanan wrote in her ruling Monday that the administration knew the revamp of SAVE violated privacy protections passed by Congress, but went forward with it anyway as part of a scramble “to comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification.”
Since the overhaul, the administration has both encouraged states to use it, and as CNN reported Monday, now seeks to punish states that don’t.
The Justice Department has also gone on an unprecedented campaign to collect each state’s unredacted voter registration file so the federal government can check the rolls against the citizenship data program. A more recent executive order by Trump also instructs the Department of Homeland Security to use SAVE and other federal data sources to assemble lists of voting-age citizens for each state.
It’s unclear how this new ruling will impact those projects on a practical level, but some of those maneuvers were already facing pushback in court in other lawsuits.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The case before Sooknanan was brought by several voter advocacy organizations and a privacy group. The challengers argued that their privacy rights were being harmed and that their members faced the threat of being wrongly identified as noncitizens, because of how the SAVE system can be outdated or inaccurate.
“As the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represented the challengers. “The data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.”
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