Subpoena records offer clues about Trump administration probe of L.A. County voters

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Set us as preferred Federal investigators have sent Los Angeles County elections officials at least five grand jury subpoenas for individual voter records as part of a criminal investigation into illegal voting, according to partially redacted records reviewed by The Times.The subpoenas — released in response to a public records request — appear related to a nationwide effort by the Trump administration to identify noncitizens who have illegally cast ballots in U.S.

elections.The subpoenas were issued in the U.S.District Court for the Central District of California.

They were sent to L.A.County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan’s office at the request of prosecutors in the office of First Assistant U.S.

Atty.Bill Essayli.

“The enclosed subpoena has been issued in connection with an official criminal investigation being conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations,” Assistant.U.S.

Atty.Michael Wheat — based out of the district’s Orange County office — wrote in a letter accompanying a Sept.

10 subpoena.Wheat wrote that a custodian of records from Logan’s office must either appear before the grand jury to present the records or deliver the materials to a special agent from Homeland Security Investigations.Four of the subpoenas — one issued on July 13 and three on Sept.10 — request “any and all original and non-redacted voter records” from Jan.

1, 2020, to the present for a list of individual voters stretching across two pages.The lists were redacted by Los Angeles County officials, and it is unclear how many individuals each list contained.Each of those subpoenas notes that records to be produced include information on individual voters, such as their “registration file” and “addresses listed, history and method of voting, [and] any and all attestation regarding citizenship status.”A fifth subpoena, issued July 31, appears to ...