DOJ gives California 48 hours to review list of possible noncitizens…

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Justice Department has given California forty-eight hours to confirm whether noncitizens were mailed ballots, and it is threatening emergency relief if the state does not act.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJoining us from a federal prison in Connecticut is Leopold Strunk, inmate forty thousand seven hundred eighteen, who says he knows mail.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLeopold, what do you make of the deadline?

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   Leopold StrunkForty-eight hours is tight but doable, Hank.

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   Leopold StrunkMail is strictly sorting, you put each envelope where it belongs and you do not ask whose name is on it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou do ask whose name is on it. That is the whole story this morning.

7. LS

   Leopold StrunkFair. I only mean my own experience, which was strictly sorting, mostly the neighbors' envelopes, mostly the ones with checks in them.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe neighbors'.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo let me ask you about California. Should the state be able to confirm who got a ballot in forty-eight hours, yes or no?

10. LS

    Leopold StrunkWhat matters is the process, Hank.

11. LS

    Leopold StrunkStrictly sorting means you open nothing, unless it is already open, and in my case it was often open by the time I got it, with this fingertip.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'll repeat the question, because you walked around it. Can the state do it in forty-eight hours?

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    Leopold StrunkIf they have the list, yes. I once did four hundred pieces overnight, strictly sorting, and nobody in that building ever noticed a thing was missing.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLeopold, that is a confession on live television, and it is not even our story. On the fender-bender scale, this is a full bumper.

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    Leopold StrunkA full bumper? That is exactly what the judge said, Hank, word for word.