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DOJ escalates fight for election supremacy with California raids
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests in California on October 20 of foreign nationals and green card holders charged with fraudulent voter registration, part of an operation the administration claims targets noncitizen voting. The federal government provided California election officials with a list of over 20,000 registered voters it claims are ineligible, though the administration has a documented history of vastly inflating voter fraud claims that rarely hold up in court. Multiple lawsuits seeking voter registration records have resulted in federal losses, and follow-up investigations of past allegations have consistently found actual noncitizen registrations to be a tiny fraction of initial claims.
Why it matters: Election administrators and state officials should understand that the federal government is actively pursuing voter registration data and using enforcement actions ahead of elections, creating operational pressure despite lack of credible evidence of widespread noncitizen voting; practitioners involved in election infrastructure or voter registration systems should monitor for federal data requests and potential disruptions to ballot handling or voting machine security.
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