DOJ charges 28 in California voter-registration raids
Original title: DOJ escalates fight for election supremacy with California raids
Officials tie the cases to a 20,000-name subset of a DHS list of more than 190,000 alleged potential noncitizen registrants.
The Justice Department said it arrested 28 foreign nationals and permanent green card holders in California under “Operation Protect the Vote,” charging fraudulent voter registration and false statements on naturalization applications. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said each defendant was on a list of more than 20,000 likely noncitizen registrants sent to Secretary of State Shirley Weber on October 13. A DHS spokesperson said that list is a subset of more than 190,000 alleged potential noncitizens and that ICE and HSI are investigating. The article says there is no credible evidence of widespread noncitizen voting and that similar claims have usually shrunk after review.
Unconfirmed: The noncitizen counts and fraud claims are DOJ and DHS assertions; the article says prior similar claims were largely unconfirmed.
- All 28 people charged were described as foreign nationals or green card holders.
- DOJ says California refused to review the 20,000-name list before the charges.
- DHS says the larger list used state rolls, federal databases, and commercial data.
- Weber’s office and Senator Alex Padilla’s office did not comment on the arrests.
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