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Trump administration seeks to discard ballots from alleged noncitizens
First reported Oct 27, 12:58 PM ET · Latest Nov 2, 12:53 PM ET · Explainer updated Nov 2, 1:02 PM ET
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Where things stand
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to set aside about 20,000 ballots in California that it says were cast by non‑citizens, CBS News reports.
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- Reported The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 ballots in California from alleged noncitizens. Is this wrong?
Source
- “asked the Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 ballots in California from alleged noncitizens” — CBS News
- Reported Federal prosecutors sent a letter to the Washington secretary of state with a list of 400 people they claimed are not U.S. citizens. Is this wrong?
Source
- “they sent a letter to the Washington secretary of state with a list of 400 people they claimed are not U.S. citizens” — CBS News
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Timeline
What changed: The request to the nation’s highest court is the latest move in the effort to invalidate those votes.
How this story developed
- New The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 ballots in California from alleged noncitizens. Federal prosecutors sent a letter to the Washington secretary of state with a list of 400 people they claimed are not U.S. citizens.
Every report, newest first
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to sideline 20,000 disputed California mail ballots — PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday in its push to sideline thousands of disputed California mail ballots the day before the pivotal midterm elections. The emergency appeal came after an appeals…
- Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to set aside ballots from 20,000 alleged noncitizens — CBS News
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 ballots in California from alleged noncitizens. CBS News' Natalie Brand has the latest.
- DOJ asks Washington to set aside ballots from 400 alleged noncitizens — CBS News
Federal prosecutors said they sent a letter to the Washington secretary of state with a list of 400 people they claimed are not U.S. citizens.
Questions
- It is unclear what evidence the administration will present to prove non‑citizenship and how the Supreme Court will rule on the request. Open
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Federal prosecutors previously sent a letter to Washington state’s secretary of state listing 400 voters they claimed were not U.S. citizens and asked that those ballots be removed. The new filing expands that approach to a much larger pool of ballots in another state.
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