Ohio election officials will begin removing from their rolls thousands of inactive voters that SAVE identified as deceased. DHS to states: Follow our voting rules or lose out on election security money The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. But USCIS did not respond to NPR’s questions about what happens to the data states upload and who has access to it. USCIS says almost 80% of the 33 million voters validated via SAVE were run through the system since the Aug. 15 change. Furthermore, data matching in elections is notoriously difficult and there are questions about the completeness of the Social Security Administration’s citizenship data USCIS is relying on.