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The Justice Department is also widening a criminal investigation into California election officials
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even after a judge ruled against the Trump administration, which wants California to
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throw out 20,000 mail-in ballots purportedly sent to non-citizens who were ineligible to vote
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Those claims remain unsubstantiated. However, multiple news outlets reported that all four
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U.S. attorneys in California had begun issuing subpoenas, seeking voter records that the Trump
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administration has so far been unable to obtain. The investigation is part of a broader effort by
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the administration to depict this year's midterms as rigged to help Democrats, a claim that President
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Trump has repeatedly made on the campaign trail. Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County Registrar
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called the subpoenas an intimidation tactic. In a statement, he said, quote, at every step
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the U.S. Department of Justice has taken a confrontational, adversarial approach. election officials are acting in accordance with state and federal law
