DOJ asks Washington to set aside ballots from 400 alleged noncitizens
Topics: Voting & Election LawCalifornia Politics
4 outlets (CBS News, Fox News, PBS NewsHour and WSJ) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 4 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “Washington”, “aside”, “noncitizens”, “ballots”. Distinct wording: CBS News uses “alleged” and “DOJ”; Fox News uses “registered” and “officials”; PBS NewsHour uses “voters”; WSJ uses “immediately” and “California”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- CBS News reports: “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.”
- Fox News reports: “Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd told Fox News Digital some noncitizens identified in the probe cast ballots as many as 27 times, with alleged votes dating back to 1984.”
- PBS NewsHour reports: “The effort is the latest by the administration to identify noncitizen voters, even though noncitizen voting is exceptionally rare.”
Read the full coverage
- CBS News: DOJ asks Washington to set aside ballots from 400 alleged noncitizens
- Fox News: Federal officials identify 400 noncitizens registered to vote in Washington state: 'Tip of the iceberg'
- PBS NewsHour: Trump administration asks Washington state to set aside ballots from 400 voters it says may be noncitizens
- WSJ: A U.S. court rejected a Trump administration request to immediately require California to set aside mail-in ballots it gets from 20,000 people the federal government says might not be U.S. citizens
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