DOJ sues California over 20,000 alleged noncitizen mail ballots

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWe promised you the Rio wedding, and we'll get there, but first the California election fight: President Trump says officials who ignore the Justice Department's warning on about two hundred thousand mail-in ballots could go to jail, according to Breitbart.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Justice Department sued California on Thursday over more than twenty thousand alleged noncitizens it says are registered to vote, and CBS says it wants those ballots kept out of the count.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCalifornia mails a ballot to every registered voter, so the Justice Department says ballots already went out to the people on its list.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSecretary of State Shirley Weber called the demand unprecedented and said the timeline was impossible.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentElection law expert David Becker called the lawsuit, quote, fairly frivolous.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd California's top election official says the feds once flagged nearly sixteen thousand possible noncitizens in Nevada, and every one turned out to be a citizen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Justice Department also gave California forty-eight hours to review its list, which a state clerks' association president called completely unreasonable, PBS reports.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorForty-eight hours?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentABC Seven says the list came on a password-protected thumb drive, with the password handwritten on a note.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA handwritten password on a sticky note. That's not a vault, that's a suggestion.