LA Officials Say 38.9% of DoJ Voter List Sample Was US-Born
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 21
LA Officials Say 38.9% of DoJ Voter List Sample Was US-Born
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 21
Summary
Los Angeles election officials told a court that 38.9% of a 200-person sample from the Justice Department’s 20,000-name suspected non-citizen voter list showed a U.S. birthplace.
The filing also said 43% of sampled names had canceled voter registrations, 71% had never voted, and only 86 people on the county list had been mailed a ballot this year.
That scrutiny deepens doubts about the federal list after the DoJ gave California and Los Angeles County 48 hours to segregate ballots tied to listed names; state officials refused and were sued last week.
DHS, which compiled the list, has not shared its matching methodology, and experts have warned the record-linking process can be error-prone.
The dispute echoes Nevada, where DHS first suggested up to 16,000 non-citizens on voter rolls, then sent 185 names that state investigators later said were all citizens.