The Trump administration has given California election officials 48 hours to verify the citizenship of thousands of registered voters flagged by federal authorities or withhold their ballots pending verification, threatening emergency legal action less than three weeks before the November 3 midterm elections.
In letters reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter demanded that officials check a federal list of suspected noncitizens and segregate ballots already issued to voters whose eligibility remained unverified.
