President Donald Trump has no legitimate grounds to order the seizure of ballots or voting machines during this year’s midterm elections.
But the dismal reality is he may try anyway.
The potential illegal voting identified by the Department of Justice is painstakingly microscopic: just 0.00006% of all ballots cast in the elections at issue, or one alleged illegal vote for every 1.7 million votes.
A top federal prosecutor in Texas began the first day of early voting with a stark message to voters and local officials: “If you violate federal election law, I will hunt you down and prosecute you. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. We’ll see you out at the polls.”
The DOJ has sued for a court order to bar the state from counting ballots from around 20,000 people it alleges without evidence are “likely noncitizens.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a federal court to immediately prevent California from counting the ballots of 20,000 people the Trump administration has accused of being noncitizens who illegally registered to vote. The request for a temporary restraining order is the latest escalation between California and the Trump administration over the midterms. California […]
The group argued that if the Supreme Court were to once again change New Hampshire’s rules around student IDs, it would create confusion about voting and disenfranchise voters.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon downplayed the Department of Justice’s crusade against noncitizen voting, calling public fear “paranoia.” Her department, the same week, threatened to disenfranchise 20,000 people in California it flagged as potential noncitizens.
One year after President Donald Trump kicked off an unprecedented redistricting war to gain five more GOP congressional seats in Texas, his plan now faces its greatest test: the voters.
With the federal government trying to keep tens of thousands of people in his state from having their votes counted, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused President Trump of trying to rig the upcoming midterm elections.
Through its extraordinary lawsuit against California, the Justice Department is trying to bypass bans on last-minute registration purges by targeting voters’ ballots directly.