FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Did California officials investigate the Department of Justice’s list of roughly 20,000 people suspected of being noncitizens or reject it without checking the names?
The Honest Elections Project has filed three records requests seeking the answer to this question.
The requests, provided exclusively to the Daily Signal, were filed with the California Secretary of State, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, and the Shasta County Clerk.
The Honest Elections Project is seeking records of state investigations into federal concerns that some people on the voter rolls might not be U.S. citizens. The group wants details on what those investigations found, how officials handled ballots sent to or returned by suspected illegals, and what guidance the state gave counties for checking whether someone is eligible to vote.
The requests follow the Justice Department’s announcement on Monday that it charged 28 noncitizens with federal election-related offenses in California, including false statements on naturalization applications and, for some defendants, fraudulent voter registration.
Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, criticized the state’s response, saying California’s election system “asks no questions and wants no answers.” He also accused officials of refusing to act on the federal list.
“California registers voters on their word, never independently verifies citizenship, bans local voter ID, and mails ballots to every active voter. When federal authorities handed officials a list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens, they refused to even open the drive, and when they finally looked, they refused to set aside a single ballot,” he said.
Snead said the recent DOJ charges reinforced his criticism of California’s response.
“Even as noncitizens are being charged with election crimes across the state, California officials are calling it a political stunt and fighting in court to count every one of those ballots,” he said. “Fortunately, the Department of Justice is taking action even as California drops the ball. The people of California deserve free and fair elections, even if their leaders don’t want to give it to them.”
View the Honest Elections Project requests to the California Secretary of State, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, and the Shasta County Clerk.
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