“一张非法选票会抵消一名美国公民的选票，”美国司法部第一助理检察官比尔·埃塞利说道
2026年10月22日 美国东部时间下午1:42 / 福克斯新闻
作者：詹姆斯·西龙 福克斯新闻
联邦检察官称加州有2万名非公民收到了邮寄选票
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美国加州第一助理检察官比尔·埃塞利向福克斯新闻数字频道表示，加州选民名册上的非公民人数可能还会有数千人之多。
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加州一名高级联邦检察官表示，联邦调查人员已经确认，他们在该州选民名册上标记为“疑似非公民”的全部2万人均并非美国公民。
负责加州中区的美国司法部第一助理检察官比尔·埃塞利向福克斯新闻数字频道透露，联邦调查人员有证据显示，这2万人本月都收到了邮寄选票。他的办公室上周对加州提起诉讼，请求法院下令不得计算这些人寄回的选票。
“我们并没有要求加州采取任何极端措施，只是要求将疑似非公民的选票封存起来，”埃塞利在周三的采访中说道，“我们认为这一数字至少为2万，这只是底线。”
他表示，潜在的上限要高得多。埃塞利提到了国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林今年7月致加州的一封信，信中指出近20万名选民可能为非公民。
比尔·埃塞利，加州中区美国司法部第一助理检察官，于2026年8月13日在春街法院的新闻发布会上露面。（艾伦·J·沙本 / 洛杉矶时报 via 盖蒂图片社）
司法部官员在《60分钟》节目中为特朗普政府的非公民投票调查辩护，指责节目组剪辑掉了她的回答
自那以来，联邦调查人员一直在梳理这些记录，以确认他们认定的非公民身份者。
他表示，2万只是当前的统计数字，预计未来几天还会增加数千个名字。
本周早些时候，埃塞利在社交媒体上与加州州长加文·纽森就该州防范非公民投票的保障措施发生争执。
埃塞利辩称，加州所谓宽松的核查流程正在允许没有公民身份的人加入选民名册，而纽森则表示，该州遵守了所有与选举诚信相关的联邦法律。
在法庭文件中，加州选举官员反驳了司法部的要求，辩称县选举办公室既没有权限也无法获取联邦记录来核实选民的公民身份。
他们还表示，如果选票已经被处理，要封存司法部名单上人员的选票是不可能的。一旦选票上的签名得到核实，选票就会从带有识别信息的信封中取出，与其他选票一起处理，这意味着无法再将其追溯到 individual 选民。
选举工作人员于2026年10月21日在旧金山市政厅的中期选举提前投票期间整理选票。（大卫·保罗·莫里斯/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
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“确实如此。这也是我们申请紧急法院命令要求他们将这些选票搁置一旁的原因，”埃塞利说道，“选票已经寄出，人们正在填写，并且正如我们所说，它们正在被回收处理中。所以犯罪行为正在实时发生。”
美国司法部周三加大了推动法院立即介入的力度，要求法官在周四中午前对其紧急请求作出裁决。根据法庭记录，仅洛杉矶县一地，官员们就已经处理了33.1万张选票。
据联邦政府透露，埃塞利的办公室于10月15日提起诉讼，约在加州寄出邮寄选票两周后，包括寄给司法部名单上的疑似非公民的选票。
当被问及司法部为何没有更早采取行动时，埃塞利解释说，调查人员直到选票寄出后才确切知道哪些选民会收到选票。
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他表示，加州应该与联邦政府合作，加快核实选民公民身份的进程。
这需要提供额外的身份信息，包括驾驶执照号码和社会安全号码（如可获取），以便联邦调查人员可以对照政府数据库进行交叉核对。
加州和其他数十个州将此类信息视为机密，拒绝向联邦政府移交，这促使司法部将其中几个州告上法庭。
在2025年9月的另一起诉讼中，司法部试图迫使加州提供完整的未编辑选民登记数据库，包括姓名、社会安全号码、家庭住址和投票历史。
今年1月，一名地区法院法官支持加州，驳回了此案，称政府的请求“史无前例且非法”。司法部已对该裁决提起上诉，诉讼仍在进行中。
娜塔莎·加西亚于2026年10月19日周一在洛杉矶县选举与记录办公室诺沃克分部提前投票时，与女儿拉拉一起提交2026年中期选举选票。（杰森·阿蒙德 / 洛杉矶时报 via 盖蒂图片社）
【地图】司法部打击非法投票行动席卷17个州，竞争激烈的选举受到审查
“如果加州能够提供或提交其记录，我们可以通过已建立的系统快速筛选，以确定谁是公民，谁不是，”埃塞利告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“他们迫使我们采取艰难的方式，但我们愿意这么做，因为这非常重要。”
他表示，当前名单上的2万人都经过了美国公民及移民服务局和国土安全调查局的联邦雇员的单独审查。
然而，加州官员对司法部名单的可靠性提出了质疑。
洛杉矶县助理选举记录员莫妮卡·弗洛雷斯在一份法庭声明中表示，她的办公室对名单上与洛杉矶县地址相关的200条记录进行了初步审查。
弗洛雷斯说，其中112条对应的选民登记已被取消或处于无效状态，这意味着这些人没有收到11月选举的选票。
在这张照片中，2026年10月17日在洛杉矶拍摄的一张寄给南加州居民的大选前邮寄选票。（杰伊·L·克莱登/盖蒂图片社）
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“我实际上并不相信这一点，”埃塞利说道，“我们掌握的信息是，他们很可能收到了选票。所以我们要求他们提供其声称登记已被取消的人员名单。”
埃塞利补充说，洛杉矶县没有说明这些登记是何时被取消的。他提出，至少有一些登记是在联邦官员向该州提供名单后才被取消的。
“如果他们根据我们提供的记录现在取消登记，那是好消息，”埃塞利说道，“但这一切都有待确定。”
在洛杉矶县审查的200份样本中，弗洛雷斯表示，在“有明确出生地信息”的记录中，38.9%显示此人出生在美国，她称这是“公民身份的有力证据”。
2026年10月19日，多名选民在洛杉矶县选举与记录办公室提前投票。（杰森·阿蒙德 / 洛杉矶时报 via 盖蒂图片社）
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埃塞利同样对这一结论提出异议，认为出生地信息——就像公民身份信息本身一样——是由登记选民自行提供的。
“他们没有独立核查任何这些信息，”埃塞利说道，“他们只是根据登记投票的人提供的信息行事。”
加州州务卿办公室和洛杉矶县选举记录员办公室没有立即回复福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
埃塞利表示，他的办公室决心继续调查，因为“一名非公民投票都太多了”。
“一张非法选票会抵消一名美国公民的选票。有很多地方选举的胜负只差寥寥数票，”他说，“非公民不能在联邦选举中投票，我们打算执行这项法律。”
詹姆斯·西龙是福克斯新闻数字频道突发/热点新闻团队的撰稿人。新闻线索可发送至james.cirrone@fox.com。
DOJ has verified 20,000 noncitizens on California voter rolls, federal prosecutor says
“One illegal vote cancels out the vote of an American citizen,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says
October 22, 2026 1:42pm EDT / Fox News
By James Cirrone Fox News
Federal prosecutor says 20,000 noncitizens in California were mailed ballots
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U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told Fox News Digital that there are potentially thousands more noncitizens on California’s voter rolls.
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A top federal prosecutor in California said federal investigators have determined that all 20,000 people they flagged on the state’s voter rolls as “likely noncitizens” are not U.S. citizens.
Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for California’s Central District, told Fox News Digital that federal investigators have evidence that these 20,000 individuals received mail ballots this month. His office sued California last week seeking a court order to prevent any ballots they return from being counted.
“We’re not asking California to take any drastic steps other than to sequester the ballots from the suspected noncitizens,” Essayli said in an interview on Wednesday. “We believe it’s at a minimum of 20,000. That’s the floor.”
The potential ceiling, he said, is much larger. Essayli referenced a letter Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent to California in July that flagged nearly 200,000 voters as possible noncitizens.
Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, appears at a news conference at the The Spring Street Courthouse on Aug. 13, 2026.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Since then, federal investigators have been sifting through those records to identify people they believe they can verify as noncitizens.
He said 20,000 is only the current tally and expects thousands more names to be added in the coming days.
Earlier this week, Essayli got into a social media spat with Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state’s safeguards against noncitizen voting.
Essayli argued that California is allowing people without citizenship onto the voter rolls through its supposedly lax verification processes, while Newsom said the state follows all relevant federal law governing the integrity of elections.
In court filings, California election officials have pushed back against the Justice Department’s demands, arguing that county election offices lack both the authority and access to federal records needed to verify voters’ citizenship status.
They have also said that sequestering ballots from people on the DOJ list is impossible in cases where the ballots have already been processed. Once a ballot’s signature is verified, it is removed from its identifying envelope and processed alongside other ballots, meaning it can no longer be traced back to an individual voter.
Election workers sort ballots during early voting ahead of the midterm election at City Hall in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 21, 2026.(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“That is true. That’s why we’re getting an emergency court order requiring them to put those ballots aside,” Essayli said. “Ballots have already gone out, people are filling them out and they’re being returned in process as we speak. So, the crime is occurring in real time.”
The DOJ escalated its push for immediate court intervention Wednesday, asking the judge to rule on its emergency request by noon Thursday. In Los Angeles County alone, officials have already processed 331,000 ballots, according to court records.
Essayli’s office filed suit on Oct. 15, roughly two weeks after California sent out mail ballots, including to the possible noncitizens on the DOJ list, according to the federal government.
When asked why the Justice Department didn’t act sooner, Essayli explained that investigators did not know exactly which voters would receive ballots until they were sent.
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He said California should cooperate with the federal government to expedite the process of verifying voters’ citizenship.
That would involve providing additional identifying information, including driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers when available, that federal investigators could cross-check against government databases.
California and dozens of other states treat this information as confidential and have refused to turn it over to the federal government, prompting the DOJ to take several of them to court.
In a separate lawsuit from Sept. 2025, the DOJ tried to compel California to provide its complete, unredacted voter-registration database, including names, Social Security numbers, home addresses and voting histories.
In January, a district court sided with California and dismissed the case, calling the government’s request “unprecedented and illegal.” The DOJ appealed the ruling and litigation is ongoing.
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“If California will make available or submit its records, we can quickly put them through our established systems to determine who’s a citizen and who’s not,” Essayli told Fox News Digital. “They’re forcing us to do it the hard way, which we’re willing to do because this is very important.”
He said every person on the current 20,000-name list was individually reviewed by a federal employee at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Homeland Security Investigations.
California officials, however, have questioned the reliability of the DOJ list.
Monica Flores, an assistant registrar-recorder in Los Angeles County, said in a court declaration that her office conducted a preliminary review of a sample of 200 records from the list that were associated with LA County addresses.
Of those, 112 corresponded to canceled or inactive voter registrations, meaning no ballot was mailed to those individuals for the November election, Flores said.
In this photo, an official vote by mail ballot, mailed to a Southern California resident ahead of the general election is seen on Oct. 17, 2026, in Los Angeles, California.(Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images)
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“I don’t believe that, actually,” Essayli said. “The information we have is that they likely received ballots. So we are asking for the names of people they claim whose registration has been canceled.”
Essayli added LA County did not say when these registrations were canceled. He raised the possibility at least some were canceled after federal officials provided the state with their list.
“If they’re canceling now based on the records we provided, that’s great news,” Essayli said. “But that’s all to be determined.”
In the 200-person sample reviewed by LA County, Flores said that among records where birthplace was “meaningfully reported,” 38.9% indicated the person was born in the United States, which she called “strong evidence of citizenship.”
Multiple people vote early at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office on Oct. 19, 2026.(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Essayli similarly disputed this conclusion, arguing that the birthplace information — much like the citizenship information itself — was provided by the registered voters themselves.
“They’re not independently checking any of this information,” Essayli said. “They’re going off the information that was provided to them by the person who registered to vote.”
The California Secretary of State’s office and the LA County Registrar-Recorder’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Essayli said that his office is determined to follow through with its investigation because “one noncitizen voting is too many.”
“One illegal vote cancels out the vote of an American citizen. There are a lot of local elections that are decided on very few votes,” he said. “Noncitizens cannot vote in federal elections, and we intend to enforce that law.”
James Cirrone is a writer on the Breaking/Trending News team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to james.cirrone@fox.com.
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