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Days after the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume a revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas’s campaign posted an “Election Alert” and a fundraising letter.

Her message is simple: Connecticut is not participating, the program is voluntary, and voters should keep her in office so she can keep it that way.

The Court’s September 25 order paused a lower-court block on the modified SAVE system. The majority said the injunction “inhibits the Federal Government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.” Participation is still voluntary. States may run individualized checks; federal law still limits systematic mass removals in the final 90 days before a federal election. Other states have already used the tool. Connecticut has not.

Thomas’s campaign treats that refusal as a selling point. The alert graphic stresses that the SAVE program is not the SAVE Act, warns about sensitive personal data and false flags of eligible voters as noncitizens, and notes that voluntary use “limits the ruling’s impact on the midterm elections.”

The letter goes further. It recites years of Trump claims about non-citizen voting, then offers these figures: “approximately 1,600 cases investigated and 160 arrests AGAINST 211 MILLION VOTERS” — 0.0007 percent — and a longstanding think-tank estimate of about 0.0001 percent. Most of the 1,600, she writes, were people registered by mistake who never voted once they realized the error. Her preferred remedy is an ad campaign explaining who may vote. She then tells supporters that every candidate should be asked whether Joe Biden won in 2020 and whether they would support a state version of the SAVE America Act.

That is the state’s chief election officer converting a Supreme Court ruling into campaign fundraiser while declining a federal tool built to check citizenship against immigration and Social Security records. SAVE has existed for decades for benefits verification. The recent expansion added broader data and bulk-search capability so election officials could flag potential noncitizens already on the rolls. Thomas cites privacy and error risks. Those concerns are real and should be managed with due process before anyone is removed. They are not an argument against ever running the check.

Her percentages also gloss over the actual problem. Investigations and arrests are not the same as the number of improper registrations. “Registered by mistake and never voted” is an admission that ineligible people got on the list. Close races can be decided by smaller margins than 0.0007 percent. Connecticut already has a record of sloppy urban list maintenance and delayed enforcement. The Department of Justice has separately sued Thomas in her official capacity over her refusal to produce the complete statewide voter file, including identifiers she says state law forbids sharing.

No statute forces Connecticut onto SAVE. But the Secretary of the State is still responsible for accurate rolls and public confidence. Campaigning on a pledge not to use a newly available federal verification system — and wrapping that pledge in a donor email — tells voters the priority. Other states are running the checks. Connecticut’s election chief is asking for another term so she does not have to.

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