DOJ and DHS arrest 28 green card holders in California 'Operation Protect the Vote', citing 190,000 'potential noncitizen' voters
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,000 'likely noncitizen' registrants that DOJ gave to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Oct. 13. A DHS spokesperson said an internal list holds more than 190,000 California registrants flagged as 'potential noncitizens', and that ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are investigating. The article stresses that there is no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud or noncitizen voting, and that past 'potential noncitizen' counts have shrunk to a tiny fraction after follow-up checks. It frames the raids as an escalation of the administration's push for federal administrative control over elections ahead of the midterms.
Detalhes técnicos
- DHS says its list was built from publicly available state voter registration data, federal databases and 'commercial third-party data', cross-referenced against 'known aliens in our systems'.
- DHS describes the 20,000 DOJ figure as a subset that has gone through manual verification so far.
- The administration has lost every lawsuit seeking state voter registration records so far.
- Federal raids have already seized 2020 election ballots in Georgia and Arizona.
- Senators including Alex Padilla asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to commit that federal agencies will not seize live ballots or voting machines in the midterms.
Remediação
The article gives no technical remediation. DOJ demands that California verify the citizenship of the 20,000 registrants before mail-in ballots are counted. Election officials should expect pressure over voter-roll data and handle federal data requests through legal counsel.
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DOJ and DHS arrest 28 green card holders in California 'Operation Protect the Vote', citing 190,000 'potential noncitizen' voters
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The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,000 'likely noncitizen' registrants that DOJ gave to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Oct. 13. A DHS spokesperson said an internal list holds more than 190,000 California registrants flagged as 'potential noncitizens', and that ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are investigating. The article stresses that there is no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud or noncitizen voting, and that past 'potential noncitizen' counts have shrunk to a tiny fraction after follow-up checks. It frames the raids as an escalation of the administration's push for federal administrative control over elections ahead of the midterms.
Technical Details
- DHS says its list was built from publicly available state voter registration data, federal databases and 'commercial third-party data', cross-referenced against 'known aliens in our systems'.
- DHS describes the 20,000 DOJ figure as a subset that has gone through manual verification so far.
- The administration has lost every lawsuit seeking state voter registration records so far.
- Federal raids have already seized 2020 election ballots in Georgia and Arizona.
- Senators including Alex Padilla asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to commit that federal agencies will not seize live ballots or voting machines in the midterms.
Remediation
The article gives no technical remediation. DOJ demands that California verify the citizenship of the 20,000 registrants before mail-in ballots are counted. Election officials should expect pressure over voter-roll data and handle federal data requests through legal counsel.