MS NOW: As the DOJ amps up threats against noncitizen voting in California, the number of cases remain low
Those five individuals now appear to be charged only with the crime of making a false statement under oath in a naturalization application, not with unlawfully registering to vote or voting, said [States United Rule of Law Program Director] Samantha Trepela former Justice Department prosecutor, who reviewed some of the charging documents.
… But the small number of charges brought to date in California and across the country compared with the more than 150 million Americans who voted in the last presidential election “shows that noncitizen voting is not a widespread problem,” said Trepel, who served as a Justice Department prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division across Republican and Democratic administrations.
“States already have multiple safeguards in place to ensure only eligible citizens can vote, and there continues to be no evidence that noncitizen voting poses a meaningful threat to election integrity,” Trepel said. “Efforts to exaggerate the issue risk undermining public confidence in our elections and could be used to justify removing eligible voters from the rolls.”
The Guardian: Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots
The justice department separately has threatened to prosecute election officials in the state if they tabulate ballots from non-citizens. Such a move would be without a legal basis, [States United Rule of Law Program Director] Sam Trepel, a former prosecutor at the justice department, wrote in a blogpost this month. After filing the lawsuit, the Trump administration began providing lists to other counties of suspected non-citizen voters. When election officials began reviewing them, they found the department had flagged voters who were not on the rolls and had provided insufficient information to verify their citizenship status, according to CalMatters.
MS NOW: The Arizona governor’s race is a fight over who certifies 2028
For Arizona Republicans, refusing to accept elections their party loses has proved to be valuable currency in primaries. In general elections, it has been harder to spend. In an October 2024 survey by the States United Democracy Centera group that tracks election deniers, just over a third of Arizonans said they would be less likely to back a candidate who claimed the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.
Bloomberg (Opinion): Send the Election Deniers Packing, Once and for All (gift link)
This movement will continue if Americans elect candidates who support Trump’s 2020 lies. According to an interactive list compiled by States United Actiona nonpartisan, pro-democracy organization, there are 163 election deniers running for Congress and 30 seeking statewide office. The organization defines an election denier as someone who “either participated in spreading his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, who refused to certify the legitimate results of that election, or who attempted to overturn those results.”
Source: statesunited.org
