Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025
Key claim: HR1037 would require DHS to respond within 15 days to state officials requesting immigration status information about individuals on potential voter lists.
Abstract
(HR1037 · 119th Congress) Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to respond within 15 days of receiving a request from certain state officials for the immigration status of an individual on a list of potential voters. Latest action (2025-02-05): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Why this matters
HR1037 would institutionalize a rapid federal-to-state pipeline for immigration status checks tied to voter rolls, which in practice affects naturalized citizens and eligible voters whose records may not cleanly match DHS databases. The practical civil-rights question is whether a 15-day DHS turnaround improves list accuracy or accelerates erroneous purges before voters can contest a flag, particularly in jurisdictions without robust cure procedures.