2026年10月15日 / 美国东部时间下午3:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿——美国司法部周四起诉加利福尼亚州，指控联邦政府已确认逾2万名非法登记投票的非公民。
这起在美国加利福尼亚州中区联邦地区法院提起的诉讼，是在代理副司法部长特伦特·麦科特本周早些时候向包括洛杉矶在内的多个县发信，要求他们审查一份疑似非公民名单之后发起的，他称这些人收到了即将到来的中期选举的邮寄选票。
“由州政府推动的选民欺诈在美国是不可接受的，”司法部长托德·布兰奇在宣布诉讼的声明中说道。
“如果在法庭上被认定负有责任，加利福尼亚州将严重损害人们对我们选举制度的信心，并违反保护美国代议制政府的法律。”
在麦科特发给洛杉矶县选举登记员兼县书记员的信中，他随信附上了一个密码保护的U盘，称其中包含由国土安全部汇编的姓名名单，并要求书记员办公室在48小时内审查该名单。
该县选举登记员兼书记员迪恩·洛根在回应麦科特要求的声明中表示，该县不会审查U盘内的材料，因为这样做会与“既定的数据隐私和信息安全协议”冲突。他表示，该设备不被视为“安全媒介”。
与此同时，州务卿雪莉·韦伯表示，司法部尚未提供姓名名单，并抨击特朗普政府所谓的“未经证实的说法”——即加利福尼亚州的选民登记名单上有19万名非公民。
在周四的诉讼中，司法部指控该州未与联邦政府合作纠正其选民登记名单中所谓的问题。
“联邦政府要求加利福尼亚州合作识别该州境内任何登记投票的非公民。加利福尼亚州并未为此付出认真努力，”诉讼文件称。
“因此，当选票受到质疑时，美国寻求常见的选举救济。在确定选民的公民身份之前，本法院应当禁止加利福尼亚州在即将到来的联邦选举中计票可能为非公民的邮寄选票，”文件补充道。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系州务卿办公室和洛杉矶县选举登记员兼县书记员置评。
司法部民权司已提起31起诉讼，敦促各州提交未删减版的选民登记名单。该司表示，其旨在确保各州保持干净的选民名单，但后来承认，它还打算将数据分享给国土安全部，以便筛查名单中的非公民。
民权司助理司法部长哈米特·迪伦于7月致函所有50个州，威胁称如果各州明知允许非公民留在选民登记名单上，将采取刑事行动。
到目前为止，司法部在这些案件中已败诉26起，迄今尚未取得任何法律胜利。
它转而使用公开可得的选民名单和其他调查手段，试图识别可能在这些州登记投票的非公民。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-rallying-arizona-20-days-midterms/
Justice Department sues California, claiming it’s mailing ballots to more than 20,000 noncitizens
October 15, 2026 / 3:52 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The Justice Department sued California on Thursday, alleging that the federal government has identified more than 20,000 noncitizens who are unlawfully registered to vote.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, came after Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent letters to counties earlier this week, including Los Angeles, ordering them to review a list of names of suspected noncitizens who he alleged received mail-in ballots for the upcoming midterm elections.
“State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
“If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation’s representative system of government.”
In the letter that McCotter sent to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, he enclosed a password-protected thumb drive that he said contained names compiled by the Department of Homeland Security, and imposed a 48-hour deadline for the clerk’s office to review the list.
Dean Logan, the registrar-recorder and clerk, said in a statement responding to McCotter’s demands that the county would not be reviewing the materials on the thumb drive because doing so would conflict with “established data privacy and information security protocols.” He said the device was not considered a “secure medium.”
Secretary of State Shirley Weber, meanwhile, said the Justice Department had not provided the list of names and blasted the Trump administration for what it said were “unsubstantiated claims” that California had 190,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls.
In Thursday’s lawsuit, the Justice Department accused the state of failing to work with the federal government to correct the alleged problems with its voter rolls.
“The Federal Government asked California to work collaboratively to identify any noncitizens registered to vote in the State. California made no serious effort to do so,” the lawsuit said.
“The United States thus seeks commonplace election relief when a ballot is called into question. This Court should enjoin California from presently tabulating vote-by-mail ballots from likely noncitizens in the upcoming federal election until the voter’s citizenship status can be determined,” it added.
CBS News has reached out to the secretary of state and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk for comment.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed 31 lawsuits in an effort to force states to hand over unredacted copies of their voter rolls. The division has said it wants to ensure states are keeping clean voter lists, but it has since acknowledged that it also intends to share the data with the Department of Homeland Security so that the lists can be screened for noncitizens.
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, sent letters to all 50 states in July threatening to take criminal action if they knowingly allowed noncitizens to remain on their voter rolls.
So far, the Justice Department has lost 26 of those cases, and has not achieved one legal victory to date.
It has resorted to using publicly available voter lists and other investigative means to try to identify noncitizens who may be registered in those states.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-rallying-arizona-20-days-midterms/
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