Published: March 26, 2026
By: AnnMarie Bedard, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE—Though a voting rights advocate cautioned that technology used for voter checks could pose security risks to residents’ personal identification information, the House Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9-7 Wednesday to move forward with a bill requiring use of the system.
Louisiana election officials have used the technology, called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, to remove 403 noncitizens from the voting rolls.
The program, run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is designed to flag potentially ineligible voters.
The bill, House Bill 691, would require state election officials to check the names of all Louisiana voters in the database each year to ensure that they were citizens.
However, opponents argued that could lead to breaches of sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers.
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LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 
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