Over 40% of DOJ non‑citizen voter list not on California rolls

More than four in ten names flagged by the U.S. Department of Justice as possible non‑citizen voters in California cannot be found on the state’s voter rolls, a legal filing shows.

The analysis, carried out by two UCLA data scientists from the university’s Voting Rights Project, examined 20,930 names that the DOJ demanded California election officials treat as potentially illegal voters on Election Day. It found that 8,880 of those names – 42 % of the list – do not correspond to any entry in California’s current voter file.

The filing, submitted on Saturday by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and co‑signed by Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor, also identified at least 22 U.S. citizens on the list and suggested many more may be confirmed citizens.

Multiple judges have already rejected the DOJ’s demand as unconstitutional, and state and local officials have described the list as riddled with errors. The filing argues that the DOJ’s threats to prosecute election officials endanger the voting rights of CHIRLA’s members and clients.

The Trump administration previously refused to release the list, calling it a “fishing expedition” and noting it contained sensitive information.

Source: ABC News. Photo: Sora Shimazaki / Pexels.