California election officials frustrated, rattled by DOJ demand to sequester 'noncitizen' ballots

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Federal prosecutors sent letters to county registrars across California demanding that local officials set aside and verify ballots that the Justice Department said may belong to noncitizens.

2 sourcesL 2 · C 0 · R 0CBS News · HuffPost · 5h ago

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State attorney general said Trump’s justice department’s directive to verify 20,000 ballots is completely improper California’s attorney general on Saturday rebuked the Trump administration’s efforts to quash alleged noncitizen voting, calling it “politicizing and weaponizing the law”. Rob Bonta,…

1 sourceL 1 · C 0 · R 0The Guardian · 6h ago

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The move by the Justice Department to try and preemptively block Alaska’s Senate results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses stunned officials in both parties.

2 sources▼ NegativeL 1 · C 0 · R 1Politico · Reason · 19h ago

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With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.

1 sourceL 1 · C 0 · R 0The New York Times · 11h ago

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The letters are the latest escalation in a legal battle between California and President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, which has recently focused on the state in its efforts to root out noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.

1 sourceL 1 · C 0 · R 0PBS NewsHour · 15h ago

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Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the “culture wars.”

1 sourceL 1 · C 0 · R 0The New York Times · 17h ago