Trump plan to control elections now includes a national voter database
Donald Trump took another step towards federalizing elections when he announced his intention to have the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) control them by creating a national voter database — he’s calling it a federal voter citizenship verification system (FVCVS) for state voter rolls — and using it, with help from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), to monitor the delivery (and collection?) of mail-in ballots.
The plan to create the FVCVS and the use of the USPS to control ballot distribution is a clear indication that Trump will implement his executive order outlining steps to be taken to nationalize elections according to a recent court filing submitted by the DOJ (via Democracy Docket):
According to the notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved a recommendation from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on June 4 regarding implementation of the executive order’s citizenship verification requirements.
“On June 4, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved a recommendation from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding implementation of Executive Order 14,399, including the creation of State Citizenship Lists as contemplated in § 2 of Executive Order 14,399,” the filing states.
The newly approved plan would operate in two parts.
First, state election officials would be permitted to submit entire statewide voter registration lists to USCIS’s SAVE database. SAVE is a federal system that was originally built to verify immigration status for government benefit programs, not voter eligibility.
The second component would create a new portal allowing state election officials to access citizenship-related data maintained by USCIS, the Social Security Administration and the State Department. The underlying information would remain inside each agency’s existing systems.
The administration plans to move quickly. According to the filing, both systems are expected to be operational by June 30 — less than a month after DHS approved the proposal. (Emphasis mine)
Did you catch the “SAVE” part of Trump’s executive order? That’s a direct reference to legislation Trump and the Republican Party have been unable to pass known as the SAVE Act. Apparently, Trump is playing Obama’s “pen and phone” card by using an executive order to do an end around Congress for failing to do as he wishes.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is being pimped by the likes of “conservatives” like Sen. Mike Lee as the answer to keeping illegal immigrants from voting in US elections. However, what this defender of liberty (sarcasm) isn’t telling you is how the SAVE Act is really designed to use the immigration problem to nationalize elections and expand the surveillance state.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to see elections nationalized and placed under Republican (i.e. his) control. In a radio interview on The Dan Bongino Show back in February, Trump called voting in America “corrupt” and claimed that since previous elections had been stolen from him, Republicans should take over how ballots are cast and counted:
“These people (illegal immigrants) were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. Amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it.
“The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” (Emphasis mine)
In addition to using illegal immigrants as justification for nationalized elections, Trump has been using illegal immigration as an excuse to build his Project 2025-inspired police state. So, it came as no surprise the day following Trump’s declaration for Republican-controlled, nationalized elections to hear Steve Bannon say on his War Room podcast that ICE agents would be dispatched to select polling stations to prevent future elections from being stolen (via Democracy Docket):
Steve Bannon said that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections.
“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and still a figure of influence in the administration, said on Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast addressing Democrats. “We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.” (Emphasis mine)
By the way, the idea of federal control of elections actually started with Barack Obama, one of the Founding Fathers of America’s Police State that includes, in addition to Obama: George W. Bush, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump.
During his presidency, Obama suggested using the Department of Homeland Security to “monitor” voting systems, and in August 2016, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson ran with the idea using the catch-all phrase “critical infrastructure” to justify allowing the Feds to seize control of our elections.
“We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is political infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid. There’s a vital national interest in our process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others as critical infrastructure.” (Emphasis mine)
Johnson also expressed his concern at the time that our voting system wasn’t centralized, saying that “there’s no one federal election system.”
Following the 2018 midterms where Democrats won the most seats in a midterm since Watergate, Nancy Pelosi and crew used their new majority in the House to pass the first incarnation of the “For the People Act” (H.R. 1), a bill they claimed would “expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.” (Emphasis mine)
Those “other purposes” included nationalizing elections — they used the phrase “federalizing elections” — and would have ultimately empowered Republicans and Democrats in Congress to seize full control of elections from the people, as we saw in this summary of the bill:
This bill addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, political spending, and ethics for the three branches of government.
The bill also sets forth provisions related to election security, including sharing intelligence information with state election officials, protecting the security of the voter rolls, supporting states in securing their election systems, developing a national strategy to protect the security and integrity of U.S. democratic institutions, establishing in the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, and other provisions to improve the cybersecurity of election systems. (Emphasis mine)
The For the People Act never became law, but the spirit behind it lives on in the Age of Trump. Even though Trumpist Republicans opposed H.R. 1 — calling it one of “the biggest power grabs in history” — they are now willing to support such a power grab if it means pleasing Dear Leader and making our elections “free and fair” (via The Hill):
“What you’re hearing from the president is his frustration about the lack of some of the blue states, frankly, of enforcing these things and making sure that they are free and fair elections,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters.
“We need constant improvement on that front. I don’t know what the ultimate solution is going to be.” (Emphasis mine)
As of now, we don’t know how many states will participate with Trump’s plan to nationalize elections, although it’s a good bet that many, if not all, Republican-led states will do so (see Florida). Still, the writing is on the wall: Donald Trump fully intends to lay the framework for the voter citizenship provisions in his plan and intends to have key components operating by the end of the month.
Donald Trump wants to control elections via the creation of a national voter database. And if he succeeds, it will mean the end of our Republic and liberty.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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