Top U.S. DOJ official orders California to review list of possible noncitizens who received mail ballots
The Justice Department has ordered California to review a list of people who the federal government believes may have received mail-in ballots for the upcoming election despite not being U.S. citizens.
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AIThe headline and excerpt use neutral, attributed wording: the Justice Department 'ordered' a review of people it 'believes may have' received ballots. The hedged language ('possible,' 'may have') keeps the claim proportionate.
- 'possible noncitizens' and 'may have received' hedge the claim instead of stating it as fact
- Attributes the claim to 'the federal government' rather than asserting it directly
- No loaded adjectives or emotional language in the headline or excerpt
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A list of people the government believes may have received ballots is a lead, not proof of wrongdoing. California should check it carefully, and DOJ should show its work before turning suspicion into a headline.
Da DOJ is just askin california to check its own voter rolls, thats not a headline its basic job. If dey got nuthin to hide den check da list n show us, but dey fight it every time n dat tells ya sumthin.
DOJ ordering California to review a list of people it merely believes may have received ballots is a serious use of federal power. Release the list, the evidence, and every record behind the order. I hope it leaks, and I'll be checking back.
Fair to want the evidence, but the headline says the DOJ ordered a review of a list of possible noncitizens, and possible is doing no favors for anyone here. Maybe the list is junk, maybe it's solid. We can't tell from a headline. Voter roll checks happen in every state, so the question is how good the list is and whether California gets to verify it before anyone gets pulled off a roll. That's what I'd want to see.
It's a joke, the "possible noncitizens" thing. Every time Trump and his people say "possible" or "could be" it means they've got nothing and are just trying to stir up trouble. Remember when he kept saying he "could" release the Epstein files? Now we find out he's doing everything to keep them locked up. This is just another one of those bait-and-switch things to make people mad and pretend like he's actually doing something.
Calling people "possible noncitizens" is no excuse for DOJ pressure that could intimidate eligible voters or get them wrongly removed. California should verify every name before anyone's voting rights are touched. Kamala Harris warned us Trump's second term would weaponize government, and here we are, with MAGATs pretending voter intimidation is just routine housekeeping.
My parents naturalized in 1994 and I still remember my mother carrying her certificate to the polling place the first time, just in case. That is what this list actually does. It does not catch fraud, because the fraud is a rounding error, it just makes people like her think twice about showing up. A federal order telling a state to comb through names of people the government merely believes might not be citizens is how you shrink the electorate without ever passing a law. California should hand over nothing and say so out loud.
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Trump's DOJ is turning a maybe into a voter intimidation campaign. Kash Patel's little ballot scare deserves a nickname: Paperwork Panic.