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UCLA analysts say 42% of DOJ California voter list is not on rolls
Associated Press reports a Saturday court filing in which UCLA analysts said 8,880 of 20,930 names the Justice Department flagged in California do not match the state's current voter file.
Based on reporting by AP
A Saturday legal filing described by the Associated Press said two University of California, Los Angeles data analysts reviewed 20,930 names the Justice Department told California officials to treat as possible noncitizen voters and found 8,880 of them, or 42 percent, do not match anyone in the state's current voter file1.
The filing was submitted in a lawsuit by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and UCLA's Voting Rights Project, according to that account1. The analysts said at least 22 people on the list are U.S. citizens and that additional names may correspond to confirmed citizens1.
The department has sought to have ballots from people on the list set aside during the count; multiple judges have rejected that demand, and state and local officials have said the list appears error-prone, the Associated Press reported1. Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor and an adviser to the UCLA project, co-signed the filing, according to the same report1.
The administration had objected to sharing the list, calling the request a fishing expedition, the Associated Press said1. President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized court rulings against the effort and said the department had identified about 20,000 suspected fraudulent votes, with larger figures possible, according to that account of a social media post1.
The Associated Press also said the department has pressed Washington state over a shorter list of about 400 names that state officials likewise call unreliable, and that California officials have received warnings of criminal liability and subpoenas tied to alleged noncitizen voting1. Whether the UCLA match rates hold in a full court record, and how many listed people are citizens, is not independently verified here1.
