2026年11月4日 美国东部时间下午1:55 / CBS新闻
当地官员告诉CBS新闻，北加州多个县在中期选举前几天收到了大陪审团的新传票，原因是涉嫌非公民投票。
圣克拉拉县和索诺马县的官员均向CBS新闻确认，他们各自收到了一份由大陪审团发出的传票，该传票是应美国北加州联邦地区检察官办公室的联邦检察官要求发出的。
CBS新闻已联系司法部置评。彭博法律网此前报道过这些传票。
这些传票是司法部最近采取的行动，目的是迫使加州搁置约2万张选票，司法部声称这些选票是在周二选举前邮寄给潜在非公民的。
州和地方官员拒绝搁置这些选票，称他们对联邦政府提供的名单准确性存在担忧，并担心隔离选票可能会剥夺合法选民的投票权。
尽管司法部要求隔离选票的民事诉讼在选举前不久最终被美国最高法院驳回，但司法部已同时展开刑事调查，且最近几周的调查范围似乎有所扩大，不仅针对可能在之前选举中投票的非公民个人，还涉及州和地方官员的行为。
中期选举前两周，洛杉矶县官员也收到了大陪审团传票，要求提供与联邦官员就非公民投票相关的通信副本，以及该县用于识别和剔除选民名单中非公民的任何程序记录。
据洛杉矶县注册登记员/县书记员的发言人表示，洛杉矶县回应这些记录请求的截止日期原定为11月4日（周三），但后来已延长数周。
索诺马县一名发言人告诉CBS新闻，该县在周六收到的传票要求提供一名个人的信息，司法部声称该个人可能在之前的选举中投过票，同时还要求提供该县如何回应司法部要求其隔离涉嫌非公民人士所投票数的相关记录。
据一名了解传票内容的人士透露，圣克拉拉县的传票也提出了类似要求。
该消息人士补充说，这两份传票似乎都至少部分聚焦于这些县是否遵守了司法部此前提出的隔离选票的要求，尽管包括美国最高法院在内的多个联邦法院都拒绝强制要求它们采取这一措施。
“索诺马县选民注册办公室致力于在完全遵守法律的前提下开展公平、透明的选举，同时为所有合格选民保留投票渠道。我们一直认为，联邦政府要求索诺马县隔离选票的请求没有法律依据，”索诺马县法律顾问约书亚·迈尔斯在一份声明中表示。
“如果这样做，将违反多项确保我们选举安全、合法进行的法律，”迈尔斯说。
圣克拉拉县法律顾问托尼·洛普雷斯蒂在回应传票时也持类似立场。
“我们始终坚持认为，联邦政府干预选举程序的企图没有法律依据，”他在一份声明中说。
这并非圣克拉拉县最近几周第一次收到与该话题相关的大陪审团传票。
圣克拉拉县选民注册办公室的一名发言人告诉CBS新闻，该办公室在9月初还收到了两份传票，均要求提供特定选民信息。该发言人表示，其他县在那前后也收到了类似请求。
两位律师均表示，他们仍在评估司法部的文件要求。
此后，加州联邦检察官已对他们指控的数十名涉嫌在之前选举中非法投票的人提起刑事诉讼。
两位了解此事的消息人士告诉CBS新闻，位于华盛顿特区的司法部高层已下令加州的四名联邦检察官向各县官员发出最近的一系列传票，否则他们可能面临被解雇的风险。
尽管一名联邦法官在选举前几天已命令司法部停止对州和地方选举官员发出威胁，但该法院的命令最终被美国第九巡回上诉法院撤销。
Northern California counties hit with subpoenas over alleged noncitizen voting ahead of midterm elections
November 4, 2026 / 1:55 PM EST / CBS News
Several counties in Northern California were hit with fresh grand jury subpoenas over alleged noncitizen voting just days before the midterm elections, local officials told CBS News.
Officials from both Santa Clara and Sonoma counties told CBS News they each received a subpoena issued by a grand jury at the behest of federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California.
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment. The subpoenas were previously reported by Bloomberg Law.
The subpoenas are the latest effort by the Justice Department to pressure California to set aside some 20,000 ballots that it claims were mailed to potential noncitizens ahead of Tuesday’s election.
State and local officials have declined to do so, saying they have concerns with the accuracy of the federal government’s list and fear that segregating the ballots could disenfranchise legitimate voters.
While the Justice Department’s civil lawsuit seeking ballot segregation was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before the election, the DOJ has pursued parallel criminal investigations that have seemingly expanded in recent weeks to focus not just on individual noncitizens who may have voted in prior elections, but also on the actions of state and local officials themselves.
Two weeks before the midterm elections, county officials in Los Angeles were also served grand jury subpoenas that requested copies of communications with federal officials concerning noncitizen voting, as well as any records pertaining to the county’s procedures for identifying and screening out noncitizens from the voter rolls.
The deadline for Los Angeles to respond to those requests for records was set for Wednesday, Nov. 4, although that deadline has since been extended for a few weeks, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
A spokesperson for Sonoma County told CBS News that the subpoena it received on Saturday requests information about an individual whom the DOJ alleges may have voted in prior elections, as well as records concerning how the county has responded to the Justice Department’s demands that it segregate ballots cast by people who are suspected of being noncitizens.
The Santa Clara subpoena also made similar such requests, according to a person familiar with its contents.
Both of them appeared to focus, at least in part, on whether the counties had complied with the Justice Department’s prior demands to segregate the ballots, even though multiple federal courts — up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court — refused to force them to take such a step, the source added.
“The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters is committed to conducting fair, transparent elections in full compliance with the law while preserving access for all eligible voters. We have consistently maintained that there is no legal basis for the federal government’s requests for Sonoma County to segregate ballots,” said Sonoma County’s counsel Joshua Myers in a statement.
“To do so would violate several laws that ensure the safe and lawful administration of our elections,” Myers said.
Tony LoPresti, counsel to Santa Clara County, took a similar position in response to the subpoena.
“We have been steadfast in our position that there’s no legal basis for the federal government’s attempts to intervene in the elections process,” he said in a statement.
This is not the first time that Santa Clara County has received a grand jury subpoena in recent weeks related to the topic.
A spokesperson for Santa Clara’s Registrar of Voters told CBS News that the office also received two subpoenas in early September, both of which requested specific voter information. The spokesperson said other counties had received similar requests around that time.
Both lawyers said they are still evaluating the Justice Department’s demands for documents.
Federal prosecutors in California have since filed criminal charges against several dozen people whom they allege may have unlawfully voted in prior elections.
Senior leaders at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., ordered California’s four U.S. attorneys to issue the flurry of recent subpoenas to county officials or else they could face termination, two sources briefed on the matter told CBS News.
Although a federal judge in the days before the election had ordered the Justice Department to cease issuing threats to state and local election officials, that court order was eventually lifted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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