Overview
- State election officials, in a Monday announcement, said a federal SAVE database cross-check of roughly 7.3–7.4 million records flagged about 34,000 active registrations tied to people listed as deceased.
- Officials reported no evidence that any of the flagged registrations were used to cast ballots.
- County boards will now review each match to confirm deaths and then cancel those registrations as required by law.
- The SAVE search matches names, birth dates, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services against Social Security files, a process that can surface out-of-state deaths North Carolina would not otherwise receive.
- Democratic board members warned the limited identifiers in the federal match can create false hits and risk improper removals, while the work proceeds under a new state oversight structure led by the auditor.