California officials wont open DOJ drive with alleged noncitizen voter records heres their excuse

It’s not a tough call.LA County and other California jurisdictions should comply with the Trump administration’s reasonable request to investigate noncitizens on the local voter rolls.There’s even a flash drive with the information on it, straight from the US Department of Justice.But California Attorney General Rob Bonta disagrees.

He had this to say: “I find it desperate.I find it embarrassing that this administration would engage in such conduct during an election.” The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story Really, Rob?Well, this immigrant-turned-naturalized citizen has thoughts as well.I found it embarrassing that no one ever wanted me to prove who I was in the good old days when Angelenos still voted in neighborhood polling places. I find it rather desperate to claim that, although noncitizen voting is a crime, California — home to Silicon Valley and allegedly filled with top thinkers in every field — insists state and local officials can’t open a secure thumb drive with a list of alleged noncitizen voters.I find it infuriating that the county of my birth, the island nation of Jamaica, is called “Third World” when it is capable of running elections quickly and efficiently.Jamaica also uses indelible ink and voter ID to ensure that no one is double-dipping into the electorate.

(Maybe Rob doesn’t know that an estimated 90 counties have used this method.)I also find it desperate to act as if a targeted, time-sensitive request, which is tied to specific ballots already in the pipeline under our universal mail-in voting system, is somehow akin to the Spanish Inquisition.The LA registrar-recorder, Dean Logan, also issued a statement, saying, “We have not accessed the drive because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and inform...