Politics
DOJ Orders Some California Counties to Set Aside Ballots from Suspected Noncitizens
PBS · 3 hours ago · Read the Full Story on PBS
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The U.S. Justice Department has ordered at least 18 California counties to sequester ballots from approximately 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters within 48 hours.
- The U.S. Justice Department ordered at least 18 California counties to provide identifying information for roughly 20,000 voters suspected of being noncitizens and to sequester ballots where citizenship cannot be verified.
- Counties were given a 48-hour deadline to comply with the federal directive.
- First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli warned that election officials who knowingly process a noncitizen's ballot face legal jeopardy.
- San Bernardino County's letter states that the federal list includes 1,133 people from that county alone.
- The Justice Department is requesting social security numbers, ID information, and registration copies for the suspected noncitizen voters.
- California's secretary of state and the Los Angeles County registrar opposed the demands, arguing the request threatens vote certification, undermines the November midterms, and risks voter disenfranchisement.
- Over 330,000 mail-in ballots have already been counted out of more than 23 million registered voters in California.
- Federal authorities charged 28 people from the suspect list with illegally registering to vote earlier in the week, with some also facing charges for illegal voting and lying on naturalization paperwork.
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