美国司法部周五向加利福尼亚州选举官员发出威胁信函，要求当地登记官立即隔离特朗普政府指控为非公民的选民的选票。
The Justice Department sent threatening letters to California election officials on Friday demanding local registrars immediately sequester ballots from voters the Trump administration alleges are noncitizens.
这些信函被亲自送达全州各县，一些书记官认为这是在试图恐吓州选举官员，尽管相关诉讼仍在进行中。
The letters were hand-delivered to counties across the state in a move that some clerks viewed as an attempt to intimidate state election officials despite ongoing litigation.
在致康特拉科斯塔县书记官兼记录官克里斯汀·康奈利的信函中，美国检察官克雷格·米萨基安警告康奈利，如果她不将司法部名单上的涉嫌非公民选票“隔离”，将面临起诉。MS NOW获得了该信函副本。
In the letter to Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder Kristin Connelly, a copy of which was obtained by MS NOW, U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian warned Connelly that she will face prosecution if she fails to “segregate” ballots from the suspected noncitizens on the department’s list.
康奈利对MS NOW表示：“这是一个在周五傍晚送达的、无法执行的48小时最后期限。目前对我来说没有任何可执行的内容，因为我需要遵守州和联邦法律。” 司法部的这一举动标志着政府升级的最新一步，当时特朗普总统重复关于非公民大规模选举舞弊的虚假指控。非公民投票极为罕见，来自非党派组织和州审计的数据显示，这些孤立事件并未改变选举结果。
“It’s an unenforceable 48-hour deadline delivered late on a Friday,” Connelly told MS NOW. “There’s nothing about this that is actionable for me at this moment, because I need to follow the state and federal laws.”The move by the Justice Department marks the latest escalation by the administration as President Donald Trump repeats false claims of widespread voter fraud by noncitizens. Voting by noncitizens is extremely rare and data from nonpartisan organizations and state audits have shown that those isolated incidents have not changed the outcome of an election.
司法部向康奈利发送了一份名单，列出了在康特拉科斯塔县登记投票的407名涉嫌非公民。这个数字是上周司法部发送给加利福尼亚州州务卿和洛杉矶县的2万名涉嫌非公民名单的一个子集。
The Justice Department sent Connelly a list of 407 suspected noncitizens registered to vote in Contra Costa County. That number is a subset of the 20,000 alleged noncitizens the department sent to California’s secretary of state and Los Angeles County last week.
“我写信是为了明确无误地说明，在核实公民身份之前，继续向名单上的人员发送邮寄选票或统计他们投出的选票将产生的法律后果，”司法部律师米萨基安在信中写道。司法部要求康奈利“暂时搁置”但“不得作废”这些邮寄选票，直到“确定公民身份”。他们给康奈利和其他县书记官“48小时”时间，与司法部和国土安全部合作，“确定随附名单上谁是公民、谁不是”。司法部在信中命令各县必须提供社会安全号码、州身份证复印件、名单上人员的选民登记申请复印件。
“I write to make unmistakably clear the legal implications of continuing to send vote-by- mail ballots to those people on the list or tabulating ballots cast by them until citizenship can be verified,” DOJ attorney Missakian wrote to Connelly. The DOJ told Connelly to “temporarily set aside” but “not cancel” the mail ballots until “citizenship status can be determined.”They gave Connelly and other clerks “48 hours” to work with the DOJ and DHS “to identify who on the accompanying list is a citizen and who is not.”The counties must provide social security numbers, a copy of state IDs, a copy of voter registration applications for people on its list, the DOJ ordered in the letter.
“无论是协助还是无视联邦犯罪，法律后果都很严重，”致康奈利和其他书记官的信中写道。当被问及是否担心被起诉时，康奈利回答“不担心”。
“The legal consequences for either facilitating or ignoring federal crimes are significant,” the letter to Connelly and other clerks state. Asked if she’d afraid of prosecution, Connelly said “no.”
“因为我没有做错任何事。我保护我们的选民名册，我们对此非常严谨，”康奈利说。“我们遵守法律。我愿意成为靶子吗？不愿意。我愿意被起诉吗？不愿意。”司法部发言人基尔斯滕·佩尔斯告诉MS NOW，司法部已直接联系了加利福尼亚州的每一个县。
“Because I’m not doing anything wrong. I protect our voter rolls, we’re very meticulous about it,” Connelly said. “We follow the law. Do I want a target on my back? No, I do not. Do I want to get prosecuted? No, I do not.”The Justice Department directly contacted every county in California, DOJ spokesperson, Kiersten Pels, told MS NOW.
“我们要求每一位县选举官员承诺与我们合作，提供必要信息，以便国土安全部能迅速核实公民身份，”佩尔斯说。“在他们的帮助下，我们可以确保加利福尼亚州历史上最安全的选举。”在各县已经开始向全州选民邮寄选票之后，司法部于10月13日向洛杉矶县和加利福尼亚州州务卿雪莉·韦伯发出了类似命令，这是对选举官员的最新威胁。
“We are asking each county election official to commit to working with us by providing the necessary information for DHS to quickly verify citizenship status,” Pels said. “With their help, we can ensure the most secure election in California history.”The latest threats to election officials come after the Justice Department sent similar orders to LA County and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Oct. 13, after counties had already begun to mail ballots to voters across the state.
洛杉矶县选民登记官迪安·洛根周五在致加利福尼亚州同行县书记官和选举官员的信息中表示，司法部的新信函“歪曲了他们自己行动的事实”，并“在大选前十二天威胁地方选举官员”。
In a message to fellow California clerks and election officials Friday, LA County Registrar Dean Logan said the new letter from the DOJ “misrepresents the facts of their own actions” and “threatens local election officials twelve days before the election.”
康奈利对“MS NOW”表示：“在这个节骨眼上，他们威胁要起诉我，这对民主没有帮助。我想确保选民知道，我们的选举是安全可靠的。” 此次事态升级源于司法部起诉加利福尼亚州，请求法官下令阻止该州统计约2万张选票，司法部声称这些选票来自“极有可能是非公民”的人。该诉讼的听证会定于下周举行，但司法部正请求上诉法院在本周末做出裁决。
“To have them threaten me with prosecution at this hour is not what’s helpful for democracy,” Connelly told MS NOW. “I want to make sure that the voters know that we have safe and secure elections.”The escalation comes after the Justice Department sued California asking a judge to block the state from counting roughly 20,000 ballots from people the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”A hearing on the lawsuit is scheduled for next week, but the DOJ is asking an appeals court to make a decision this weekend.
洛杉矶县对司法部发送的疑似非公民名单进行了初步抽样，洛根此前在一份声明中表示，结果显示“约43%已注销选民登记，70%以上无投票记录”。而在一份法庭文件中，洛杉矶县称，抽样选民中约有25.8%填写的“出生地在美国，这是公民身份的有力指标”。这些发现符合一种模式。在内华达州，州官员审查了特朗普政府提供的疑似非公民名单，结果发现零人为非公民，这是根据“MS NOW”获得的州联邦官员邮件交流显示的。
In Los Angeles County, a preliminary sampling of the suspected noncitizen names sent by the Justice Department found that “approximately 43% had canceled voter registrations, and more than 70% had no voting history,” Logan said in a prior statement. And in a court filing, LA County said some 25.8 percent of the sampled voters listed a “place of birth in the United States, a strong indicator of citizenship status.”Those findings fit a pattern. In Nevada, state officials reviewed suspected noncitizen lists provided by the Trump administration, only to find zero were noncitizens, according to email exchanges between state and federal officials obtained by MS NOW.
而在其他州，地方官员告诉“MS NOW”，这些所谓的非公民名单不可靠，并有剥夺合格选民投票权的风险。
And in other states, local officials have told MS NOW that the lists of alleged noncitizens are unreliable and risk disenfranchising eligible voters.
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