HELENA — Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, the state’s top election official, says her office will use a federal government database to step up efforts to check registered voters for U.S. citizenship.

(Watch the video for more on how the Secretary of State's office is planning to check voters' citizenship status.) Montana looking at new tools to confirm non citizens are not voting

Jacobsen’s office announced they would soon begin verifying voters’ citizenship status by checking the voter rolls against the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database.

“Montanans have also made it clear that only citizens should be allowed to vote in our elections,” Jacobsen said in a statement. "Thanks to President Trump's leadership, Montana now has direct access at no

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