U.S. citizens included on DOJ list of 400 alleged noncitizens, Washington says
Summary
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs told federal prosecutors that their list of about 400 alleged noncitizens registered to vote was unreliable and included many U.S. citizens. He said election officials should not set aside ballots without individual proof that a voter is ineligible, while prosecutors asked the state to hold ballots until citizenship could be checked.Key Facts
- Hobbs said a preliminary review found many people on the federal list were U.S. citizens.
- The list also included people who were not currently registered in Washington or had inactive registrations.
- Hobbs said the Justice Department did not explain how it compiled the list or identify its sources.
- The list arrived as a PDF with a printed spreadsheet, lacked fields such as voter ID numbers and addresses, and contained duplicate entries, according to Hobbs.
- Federal prosecutors Neil Floyd and Pete Serrano asked Washington to set aside ballots from the alleged noncitizens until their citizenship status could be verified.
- More than 1.3 million mail ballots had been returned in Washington by Wednesday, according to the article.
- In a separate case, a federal judge rejected the Justice Department's request to set aside ballots from about 20,000 people it alleged were noncitizens in California.
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