投票权组织警告司法部（DOJ），如果司法部不撤回对加州各投票当局的要求，要求他们在48小时内将选民名单与特朗普政府提供的U盘中的名单进行交叉核对，否则该组织将提起诉讼。根据洛杉矶县登记官-录音员办公室共享的信件副本，该信件随附一个U盘和一个手写密码以访问文件。该信件由代理副司法部长特伦特·麦科特发出，声称U盘包含“联邦政府认为可能是非公民且已收到邮寄选票的人员名单”，用于即将到来的中期选举。
A voting rights group warned the Justice Department (DOJ) it plans to sue if the DOJ doesn’t back away from a demand made to various California voting authorities demanding they cross reference their voter lists with those on a USB provided by the Trump administration within 48 hours. According to a copy of the letter shared by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, the correspondence included a thumb drive and a handwritten password to access the files. Sent by Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, the letter claims the USB includes “a list of names of people the Federal Government believes are likely noncitizens who were sent a vote by mail ballot” for the upcoming midterm elections.
一正在对特朗普政府进行诉讼的外部团体通知司法部，如果政府不放弃其计划，他们将在周四申请临时限制令。加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）投票权项目的律师们周三在写给司法部的信中表示：“贵客户编制该名单的行为违反了既定法律；利用该名单在选举前不到一个月系统性地清除选民，进一步违反了《全国选民登记法》及其他法律。”
An outside group with ongoing litigation against the Trump administration notified the DOJ that they will seek a temporary restraining order Thursday if the administration doesn’t abandon its plans. “Your clients’ actions in compiling the list violates established law; your efforts to employ this list to systematically purge voters, less than a month before the election, further violates the National Voter Registration Act, among other laws,” attorneys for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Voting Rights Project wrote Wednesday in a letter to the DOJ.
司法部未对置评请求作出回应。洛杉矶县登记官-录音员办公室表示，他们甚至不打算访问司法部发送的数据。“我们尚未访问该U盘，因为这样做将违反既定的数据隐私和信息安全协议。我们不认为该设备是安全的介质。此外，该信件未说明涉及的个人人数，也未描述记录中包含的信息，”同时担任县书记官的迪恩·C·洛根在一份声明中表示。“维护准确的选民登记记录是我们办公室的基本职责。”
DOJ did not respond to request for comment. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said it does not intend to even access the data sent by the DOJ. “We have not accessed the drive because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and information security protocols. We do not consider the device a secure medium. Additionally, the letter does not specify the number of individuals involved or describe the information contained in the records,” Dean C. Logan, who also serves as the county clerk, said in a statement. “Maintaining accurate voter registration records is a fundamental responsibility of our office. Federal and state laws are clear on how voter eligibility is established — and any action to remove a voter from eligibility must be based on verifiable information, not assertions of unconfirmed data matching.”
联邦和州法律明确规定了选民资格的确立方式 — — 任何将选民从资格中移除的行动必须基于可验证的信息，而非未经证实的数据匹配的断言。”司法部曾多次尝试获取加利福尼亚州及其他州的选民名单，但均遭到法院驳回，每起案件均以失败告终。加利福尼亚州也曾成为国土安全部（DHS）的目标，该部门在7月向该州以及另外三个州发出了一封信，声称这四个州的选民名单上共有约25万非公民。
DOJ has taken a number of actions seeking to obtain California and other states voter rolls, only to be rebuffed by the courts, losing in every single case. California was also a target of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which sent a letter in July to the state along with three others claiming that collectively the four states had some 250,000 noncitizens on their voter rolls.
但对发送给这四个州的通信进行审查后发现，联邦政府通过一项“初步审查”发现匹配的数量远低于这一数字 — — 仅为118,000人，这些人在其档案中匹配了姓名及其他信息。加州大学洛杉矶分校投票权项目在9月对国土安全部和司法部提起诉讼，质疑政府是如何得出大约19万非公民将在加利福尼亚州投票的这一结论的，并试图阻止他们实施7月信中要求的“名单匹配练习/选民清理”行动。
But a review of the correspondence sent to the four states shows that the federal government through a “preliminary review” found less than half that number — 118,000 — matched names and other information in its files. The UCLA Voting Rights Project sued DHS and DOJ in September, questioning how the administration came up with their claim that some 190,000 noncitizens wereed to vote in California and seeking to block them from imposing “the list matching exercise/voter purge” exercise demanded in the July letter.