The Justice Department is threatening California with possible legal action after it says the state mailed ballots to noncitizens ahead of the midterm elections.The DOJ sent a letter on Tuesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber informing her that federal officials provided Los Angeles County election officials a list of names of individuals authorities believe to be noncitizens.Acting Deputy U.S.Attorney Trent McCotter warned that the state has 48 hours to confirm whether any of the individuals on the list were mailed ballots for the November 3 election.
That deadline will expire later on Thursday."If you cannot implement this process by then, given the ongoing federal election, the United States will have no choice but to seek emergency relief," the letter states.MORE THAN A QUARTER-MILLION NONCITIZENS MAY BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 4 KEY STATES, DHS ALLEGESCalifornia Secretary of State Shirley Weber speaks during the General Assembly at the California Democratic Party State Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.on Saturday, Feb.
21, 2026.(Photo by Christina House/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Weber released a statement protesting the federal demands on Wednesday, connecting it to earlier efforts by the DOJ to expunge noncitizens from California's voter rolls.DOJ GIVES NEW JERSEY 5 DAYS TO HAND OVER VOTER DATA AFTER NONCITIZEN REGISTRATION SCANDAL"In July of this year, President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullen made (still) unsubstantiated claims that California had 190,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls.
Given the many high-profile examples of states purging US citizens from their voter rolls based on DHS/SAVE data, SOS immediately requested written information about their methodology and data sources to back up their claims.They refused and provided California with nothing," Weber said in a statement.A large box of pre-assembled mail-in ballots at the Wake County Board of Elections on Thursday, Sept.
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