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Washington finds U.S. citizens on DOJ noncitizen voter list

The Justice Department says it found 405 noncitizens who registered and voted in Washington; the state's preliminary review found citizens, inactive voters and unregistered people on the list.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWashington's Secretary of State says U. S. citizens are on the Justice Department's list of more than four hundred alleged noncitizen voters, and he is refusing to set any ballots aside.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHold on, the list of noncitizens has citizens on it? Who checked it?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSteve Hobbs did, in a preliminary review. He wrote that the list includes United States citizens and is not reliable.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe also found inactive voters and people who aren't registered at all.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd federal officials say some of them voted as many as twenty-seven times, going back to nineteen eighty-four?

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFederal officials say so, yes. The acting U. S. Attorney says the work was done manually because Washington refused to hand over unredacted voter rolls.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd Hobbs says the request came one week before the General Election.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBy hand. From the rolls they didn't get.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA rigorous process. I'd call it an inquiry, but an inquiry usually checks the list before sending it.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhoever's on that list, I hope voting twenty-seven times at least came with a sticker.

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