DOJ Threatens California Vote Lawsuit, Sets Oct. 15 Deadline Over Suspected Noncitizens
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
DOJ Threatens California Vote Lawsuit, Sets Oct. 15 Deadline Over Suspected Noncitizens
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
Summary
Tuesday letters from Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter gave California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan 48 hours to review a list of potentially ineligible voters.
The Justice Department told officials to segregate ballots from people whose citizenship cannot be verified and said it would seek emergency court relief if its demands were unmet by noon Eastern on Oct. 15.
DOJ said thousands of potential foreign nationals appear on California voter rolls statewide, but the department has not established that any identified individuals actually cast illegal ballots.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the move voter intimidation and a false fraud narrative, while Logan said his office has not opened a password-protected USB drive from DOJ because of cybersecurity and data-security concerns.
The clash lands as Californians are already voting ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms and as DOJ says it has charged 50 people with voting crimes in the past month.