特朗普政府周四对加利福尼亚州提起诉讼，指控该州处理选民欺诈指控的方式存在问题，要求联邦法院立即禁止该州统计全州约2万名选民的选票——其中许多人来自洛杉矶县——这些选民据政府称“很可能不是公民”。专家表示，此诉讼极为罕见，尤其考虑到加州选民已经通过邮寄选票开始在11月3日的中期选举中投票。州官员还表示，此诉讼极不恰当，且基于可疑的联邦数据，这些数据在其他州已被证明极不准确。
The Trump administration on Thursday sued California over its handling of voter fraud claims, asking a federal court to immediately bar the state from counting ballots from about 20,000 voters statewide — many in Los Angeles County — whom the administration alleges are "likely noncitizens." The lawsuit is highly unusual, particularly given that California voters have already begun voting in the Nov. 3 midterms via mail ballots, experts said. It's also highly inappropriate and based on questionable federal data that have proved wildly inaccurate in other states, state officials said.
“这是特朗普利用其政治化的司法部试图在选举日前三周压制加州选民的悲惨、绝望的尝试，”加州州长加文·纽森在X上写道。“法院已经明确表示，联邦政府在州选举中没有角色。我们将捍卫加州的自由公正选举，并指出每一项试图破坏我们民主的专制行为。”美国司法部长托德·布兰奇在其自身声明中为该诉讼辩护。“在美国，州政府协助的选民欺诈是不可接受的，”他说。
"This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day," Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote on X. "Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy." U.S. Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche, in his own statement, defended the lawsuit. “State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America,” he said.
“如果在法庭上被认定负有责任，加州将严重削弱公众对我们选举系统的信任，并违反保护我们国家代议制政府制度的法律。”该诉讼称，“作为对非法投票的调查的一部分”，美国公民及移民服务局对州选民和联邦公民数据进行了“多机构、多层次审查”，并以“高度确信”认定全州约有2万名“很可能不是公民”的人有资格投票。
“If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation’s representative system of government." The lawsuit states that "as part of an investigation into unlawful voting," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services conducted a "multiagency and multilevel review" of state voter and federal citizenship data and determined with "high confidence" that around 20,000 "likely noncitizens" areed to vote in the state.
随后，该机构将这些名单转交给国土安全部调查局，后者也进行了独立调查并得出了相同结论，诉讼如是称。
It then forwarded those names to Homeland Security Investigations, which conducted its own investigation and concluded the same, the lawsuit says.
该诉讼称：“这意味着，根据州法律，加州近2万名非公民已收到或将收到联邦选举的邮寄选票以参与投票，其中许多地址位于洛杉矶县。”该诉讼是在代理副司法部长特伦特·麦科特尔致函加州州务卿雪莉·韦伯和洛杉矶县登记官-书记官办公室主任迪恩·洛根两天后提出的，要求他们在48小时内搁置相同的选票，以便调查这些选民的公民身份。
"This means that, consistent with state law, nearly 20,000 noncitizens in California have been sent a vote-by-mail ballot to participate in the federal election (or will receive one), with many addresses listed in Los Angeles County," the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit comes two days after Acting Deputy Atty. Gen. Trent McCotter wrote to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Dean Logan, head of the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, giving them 48 hours to set aside the same ballots in order to investigate those voters' citizenship status.
麦科特尔曾表示，如果韦伯和洛根不予配合，特朗普政府将被迫向法院申请紧急救济。该诉讼提出时间大约是在国土安全部长马克韦恩·穆林致函韦伯、称加州可能有超过19万名非公民有资格投票的三个月后。该诉讼未提及此前的估计，也未说明国土安全部最初的估计为何比目前的估计大这么多。但诉讼称，美国公民及移民服务局以“高度确信”认定某选民为可能的非公民，意味着该选民在选民名册上的信息与该局内部记录之间的匹配基于多个身份标识，是强且一致的，能够支持强身份关联。
McCotter had said the Trump administration would be forced to file for emergency relief in the courts if Weber and Logan did not comply. The lawsuit comes about three months after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote his own letter to Weber, alleging that there may be more than 190,000 noncitizensed to vote in California. The lawsuit makes no mention of that prior estimate, or why Homeland Security's initial estimate was so much larger than its current estimate. It does say that USCIS identifying with "high confidence" that a voter is a likely noncitizen "means that the match between voter information on the voting roll and USCIS' internal records is strong and consistent based on multiple identifiers that support a strong identity link."
诉讼还称：“联邦政府数月前已通知加州，众多非公民可能有资格在加州投票。尽管明知加州必须向每位有资格的选民发送邮寄选票，但该州未作出严肃努力，与联邦政府合作以确定非公民是否有资格投票。”国土安全部未立即回应有关为何19万的数字降至2万的信息请求。
It also said, "The Federal Government notified California months ago that numerous noncitizens may beed to vote in California. Despite knowing that California must send vote-by-mail ballots to everyed voter, the State made no serious attempt to work with the Federal Government to determine whether noncitizens areed to vote." The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for more information as to how the 190,000 figure dropped to 20,000.
在回复麦科特的信中，韦伯同时提到了这两个数字，并指责特朗普政府在中期选举前夕，基于粗糙的数据工作以及对这些选民是否不具资格缺乏确定性的情况下，急于推进剥夺选民投票权的行动。“联邦政府从未澄清其怀疑 — 甚至未以任何程度的确定性确认 — 所列个人为非公民的依据。正如一家法院最近指出的那样，联邦政府的公民身份记录'众所周知不可靠'，”韦伯写道，她在此指的是公共事业组织（Common Cause）对司法部提起的诉讼。
In a letter back to McCotter, Weber noted both figures and accused the Trump administration of pushing forward to disenfranchise voters at the last minute before the midterms based on shoddy data work and no certainty that those voters are ineligible. "Nowhere has the federal government clarified the basis for suspecting — not even confirming with any level of certainty — the listed individuals are non-citizens. And as one court recently noted, the federal government’s citizenship records are 'known to be unreliable,'" Weber wrote, referring to a case brought against the Justice Department by the organization Common Cause.
“举一个例子，在内华达州发生的类似事件中，国土安全部最初指控内华达州的选民名单中包含近16,000名潜在非公民。然而，在与内华达州政府合作后，国土安全部官员未能证明选民名单上实际上存在任何一名非公民。”韦伯称，司法部要求她的办公室“在选举前夕，仅用短短48小时，审查并确认名单上大约20,000名个人的公民身份”，尽管未提供任何明确证据表明这些个人被错误列入，这一要求“令人惊讶”。
"To give just one example, in a similar incident in the State of Nevada, DHS initially alleged that Nevada’s voter roll included nearly 16,000 potential non-citizens. However, after working with the State of Nevada, DHS officials failed to establish that a single non-citizen was on the voter rolls." Weber called it "remarkable" that the Justice Department would demand that her office "review and confirm the citizenship status of each of the approximately 20,000 individuals on the list on the eve of an election and within a mere 48 hours" despite providing no clear evidence that those individuals are wronglyed.
“这是司法部自行制造的紧急情况，”韦伯写道。“加州的选举管理将继续依据适用的联邦和州法律进行，而非依据无根据的主张和荒唐的要求。”洛杉矶的首席联邦检察官、美国助理检察官比尔·埃塞利（Bill Essayli）在X平台上发布了关于此诉讼的帖子，指出给韦伯和洛根的48小时期限已过，并写道：“时间到了，加州。”
"This is an emergency of the DOJ’s creation," Weber wrote. "California’s election administration will continue to be governed by applicable federal and state law, not by unsubstantiated claims and outrageous demands." First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli, the lead federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, posted about the lawsuit on X, noting the 48-window given to Weber and Logan had lapsed and writing, "Time is up for California."
他写道：“这与政治或争议无关。”我们不会允许加州稀释美国公民的选票。”特朗普政府的诉讼称，虽然美国。
"This is not political or controversial," he wrote. "We will not allow California to dilute the votes of American citizens." The Trump administration's lawsuit says that while the U.S. "actively investigates and prosecutes incidents of unlawful voting," it "is not practicable or feasible for the United States to investigate before the 2026 election concludes thousands, let alone tens of thousands, of individuals that two federal investigative offices identified on the California voter roster as likely being sent vote-by-mail ballots."
它“积极调查和起诉非法投票事件”，但“在美国2026年选举结束前，对数千人，更不用说数万人进行调查既不实际也不可行，这两个联邦调查机构在加州选民名单中认定这些人很可能收到邮寄选票。”基于此，它主张“加州通过便利非法投票而非与联邦政府合作防止非法投票，因而明知故犯地对美国执行[联邦选举法]的能力设置了障碍”，因此该州法律上被禁止向国土安全部标记的2万名选民发送邮寄选票。
Because of that, it argues, "California is thus knowingly imposing an obstacle on the United States’ ability to enforce [federal election law] by facilitating unlawful voting rather than working with the Federal Government to prevent it," and the state is therefore legally barred from sending mail ballots to the 20,000 voters Homeland Security has flagged.
它要求加州中央地区联邦法院宣告该州的行为——包括向这2万人提供和计算选票——依法被禁止并违反至上条款，并发布禁令，禁止该州在联邦选举中计算这些选票，“直至这些人的公民身份得到核实。”特朗普政府试图利用移民数据得出关于加州选民名单的结论并干预加州选举的做法，目前正在华盛顿特区地区法院的一起独立联邦案件中受到挑战，该案由加州大学洛杉矶分校投票权项目的律师代表“人道移民权利联盟”（CHIRLA）以及一名名为佩德罗·特鲁希略的加州选民提起。
It asks the federal court in the Central District of California to declare the state's actions — including providing and counting ballots for those 20,000 people — to be barred by law and in violation of the Supremacy Clause, and to issue an injunction barring the state from counting those ballots in federal elections "until those individuals’ citizenship status can be verified." The Trump administration's attempts to use immigration data to reach conclusions about California voter rolls and intervene in California's election is already being challenged in a separate federal case in the district of Washington, D.C., brought by attorneys with the UCLA Voting Rights Project on behalf of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, and a California voter named Pedro Trujillo.
加州大学洛杉矶分校的律师们周四提交了他们自己的紧急请愿书，旨在阻止司法部就此类针对加州的行动继续推进，引用了麦科特尔致韦伯和洛根的信件。该案法官命令双方在周五前会面，并向法院提交状况报告，说明各方何时能够就此问题向法院提交陈述。
The UCLA attorneys filed their own emergency petition Thursday to preclude the Justice Department from moving forward with such actions against California, citing the letters McCotter sent to Weber and Logan. A judge in that case ordered the parties to meet and file a status report with the court by Friday as to when each side would be able to brief the court on the issue.