DOJ gives California 48 hours to review list of possible noncitizens on voter rolls

The Justice Department is warning California that it may go to court unless the state shows, within 48 hours, whether ballots for the November 3 election went to people federal officials believe are not citizens. In a letter sent Tuesday, Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney Trent McCotter told Secretary of State Shirley Weber that the department had given Los Angeles County election officials a list of names it considers noncitizens. California must confirm if any of those people were mailed ballots, with the deadline falling Thursday. Otherwise, the letter says, the department will seek emergency relief, according to Fox News.

Weber rejected the demand Wednesday, tying it to earlier federal efforts to remove noncitizens from California's rolls. She noted that in July, President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin asserted, without substantiation by her account, that 190,000 noncitizens were on the state's voter rolls. Her office requested the methodology and data sources behind that figure and received nothing. She also cited other states purging U.S. citizens using DHS/SAVE data, and said the department wants California to trust the administration without evidence or legal authority.

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