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The bill offers federal funds and administrative help to improve election technology and roll accuracy, but conditions on sharing full voter lists with an immigration database raise significant privacy, coercion, and error risks while funding may be limited.
State and local election officials receive targeted federal funding and administrative support to upgrade election technology and strengthen election-system resilience.
State and local election officials can use quarterly checks against the DHS SAVE system to identify potentially ineligible noncitizen registrants, which may improve the accuracy of voter rolls.
Voters' privacy and civil liberties could be harmed because States would be required to share complete voter registration lists with DHS SAVE, creating disclosure and surveillance risks.
Eligible voters risk wrongful challenges or removals if SAVE—an immigration verification system not designed for voter-screening—produces false positives during roll checks.
Tying eligibility for election-security funds to participation in SAVE checks may coerce States into sharing sensitive data to receive money, reducing state discretion and creating federal leverage.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Appropriates $20M to the EAC for supplemental State payments tied to quarterly sharing of full voter registration lists with DHS SAVE; each State’s payment capped at 10% of its FY2026 grant.
Official title: Provide additional election security funding to States providing voter registration information to the Department of Homeland Security.
Introduced June 2, 2026 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress June 2, 2026
Provides $20,000,000 to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make additional payments to States that participated in the 2026 election security grant program, to improve federal election administration and election technology/security. Payments to each eligible State are capped at no more than 10% of what that State received under the 2026 election security grant program and are available only to States that enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide, at least quarterly after September 30, 2026, their complete official voter registration list to DHS’s SAVE system for comparisons to identify noncitizens. The bill is a short, targeted appropriation with a conditionality: funds are only distributed to States that previously received the FY2026 election security payment and that agree to regularly share voter registration data with a federal immigration verification system. It aims to tie additional election-security funding to cooperation with DHS for noncitizen checks of voter rolls.