On September 25th, 2026, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can use a verification database, known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), that merges citizenship status with federal records, including social security, to verify voter eligibility.
The SAVE database is free and available for all states to use, including Wisconsin, to help ensure that only eligible voters are participating in our elections. The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) simply has to upload the state voter registration list to the database, to find out how many ineligible voters are on Wisconsin’s list.
On September 29th, 2026 however, Chairman of the WEC, Don Millis, stated in a letter to the Wisconsin legislature that Wisconsin is prohibited by state law from using the database for privacy reasons.
In his letter, Millis cited state statute 6.36 (1) (b) 1.a, but he omitted the critical component of the statute, 6.36 (1) (bm) below:
“The commission or any municipal clerk or board of election commissioners may transfer any information in the registration list to which access is restricted under par. (b) 1. a. to a law enforcement agency, as defined in s. 165.77 (1) (b), to be used for law enforcement purposes.”
Because DHS is clearly a law enforcement agency, and uploading the list would be for law enforcement purposes, Wisconsin can obviously use the SAVE database.
This writer believes that Millis is lying, because he knows that if the WEC uploads the state voter registration list to the SAVE database, the federal government will find, and the people of Wisconsin will learn about, the more than 4 million ineligible voter names on the list.
