DoJ had demanded that LA county confirm citizenship of people on list in thumb drive, but officials refused
The US Department of Justice sued California on Thursday, seeking a court order to prevent the state from tabulating certain ballots cast in the midterm elections.
The suit came two days after the department made a specious demand to the state. On Tuesday, the department sent election officials in Los Angeles county a thumb drive with a handwritten password purporting to contain the names of noncitizens registered to vote. The department asked officials to confirm the citizenship of anyone on the list and set aside ballots from those whose status could not be confirmed. It gave the state 48 hours – an extremely narrow window – to take action. It did not provide details on how it came up with the names on the list. In its lawsuit, filed in federal court in the central district of California, the justice department said it had provided the state with more than 20,000 names of likely noncitizens.
The Los Angeles county clerk and recorder, Dean Logan, said his office would not review the list, in part because it didn’t consider the USB drive secure.
You know what? Let them sue us. Let them investigate. Let the discovery process and truth be out. They want to know if noncitizen voting is happening and happening enough to sway an election? Great. Me too, then. Let’s find out together! Dumbass.
Even ignoring the insecure drive…
While being a US Citizen is a requirement for National and State level elections, it is not a requirement for some local elections. The District of Columbia and certain municipalities in California, Maryland, and Vermont allow non-citizens to vote in some or all local elections.
So some non-citizens being registered in California isn’t unexpected, and is completely legal.
Correct, it’s somewhat rare but for example, the city of Santa Ana was in the news sometime in the last year for allowing non-citizen voting in local elections. It makes sense for them, although it I’m being honest, it makes sense for any long term residents to be allowed to vote if they’re paying taxes.
What a joke. What a waste of time, money, and effort purely for performative purposes.
The rates of non-US citizens voting in US elections is 77 cases since 1982. Or 0.000004%.
Even then, some municipalities in California (and a handful of other States and DC) specifically allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
a thumb drive with a handwritten password
How shitty is the encryption if the password was handwritten?
And that written password?
“password”
No, they already said the password was handwritten. They should add a capital letter, number, and special character to make it more secure, though.
Handwritten1!
What a bunch of bullshit.
I guess the cons have zero plans of even pretending to do anything for the American people. It’s all just revenge on donnie’s enemies and trying to punish areas that voted blue.
All while donnie and his family steal the place blind.
Preliminary analysis from the dept of trust me bro.
Yet another insane DOJ plan that SCOTUS had the opportunity to stop but didn’t. Thanks assholes, I hope you get shingles on your genitals.
