DOJ Wants Ballots Tied to 20,000 'Likely' Noncitizens Segregated; a Los Angeles County Official Calls the List Unreliable
The Justice Department is demanding that California segregate ballots associated with 20,000 people the department says are "likely" noncitizens — an unprecedented step. Monica Flores, a Los Angeles County assistant registrar-recorder, wrote that the review is preliminary and quality control is continuing, but that it indicates the October List is unreliable.
Among the voters whose place of birth was "meaningfully reported," 38.9% indicated they were born in the United States, which Flores described as strong evidence of citizenship. Of the 200 records county staff reviewed, 112 were associated with people whose registrations were canceled or inactive.
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The 38.9% figure is the sharpest number anyone has put on the table, and it carries a built-in limit: it is a share of the voters whose birthplace was meaningfully recorded, not of the whole list. California's online voter registration form does ask for place of birth, though the field is not mandatory.
The denominator problem cuts the other way too: 112 of the 200 sampled records involved registrations that were already canceled or inactive. It also isn't clear how many people that 38.9% covers in total. That is a lot of fog around a list the Justice Department is using to demand a new ballot procedure in California.