Justice Dept. sues California officials over 20K alleged noncitizen voters
The Washington Post reports:
BLUF: The state’s election officials say the unverified numbers from the department can’t be trusted.
“ The unusual lawsuit came two days after Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan a computer thumb drive with the names of suspected noncitizens and told him to agree within 48 hours to prevent the counting of their ballots unless he had proof they were citizens who are eligible to vote.
Logan responded by saying he hadn’t opened the file because doing so would conflict with privacy and data security protocols.
Canceling a voter registration requires verifiable information and “not assertions of unconfirmed data matching,” he added.
On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to issue an injunction preventing election officials from counting the ballots of the voters it has identified until their citizenship status can be verified. The lawsuit, brought in the name of the United States, was filed against Logan, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) and the state of California.
State and local election officials have treated the administration’s claims with skepticism, noting that it has often falsely identified citizens as noncitizens. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security initially claimed up to 16,000 noncitizens were on the voter rolls in Nevada. It later lowered its estimate to 185. State election officials determined all of those voters were citizens.”
My comments:
Can we say “tRUMP ELECTION INTERFERENCE?”
BLUF: The state’s election officials say the unverified numbers from the department can’t be trusted.
“ The unusual lawsuit came two days after Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan a computer thumb drive with the names of suspected noncitizens and told him to agree within 48 hours to prevent the counting of their ballots unless he had proof they were citizens who are eligible to vote.
Logan responded by saying he hadn’t opened the file because doing so would conflict with privacy and data security protocols.
Canceling a voter registration requires verifiable information and “not assertions of unconfirmed data matching,” he added.
On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to issue an injunction preventing election officials from counting the ballots of the voters it has identified until their citizenship status can be verified. The lawsuit, brought in the name of the United States, was filed against Logan, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) and the state of California.
State and local election officials have treated the administration’s claims with skepticism, noting that it has often falsely identified citizens as noncitizens. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security initially claimed up to 16,000 noncitizens were on the voter rolls in Nevada. It later lowered its estimate to 185. State election officials determined all of those voters were citizens.”
My comments:
Can we say “tRUMP ELECTION INTERFERENCE?”
