2026年10月23日 美国东部时间晚上10:54 / CBS新闻/美联社报道
据洛杉矶县登记处及美联社获取的一封信件显示，联邦检察官于本周五向加州各县的选举登记官发送函件，要求当地官员搁置并核查美国司法部声称可能属于非公民的选票。
这起纠纷是加州与特朗普总统领导的司法部之间法律博弈的最新升级；近期，司法部重点针对加州，在中期选举前着力打击非公民投票行为。数据表明，非美国公民非法投票的情况极为罕见，难以证明，且从未被证实足以改变选举结果。
本月早些时候，联邦政府对洛杉矶县及加州州务卿办公室提起诉讼，试图阻止他们计票，对象是该诉讼中所称的超过2万名“可能是”非公民选民的人员。该案听证会定于周二举行。
本周五，特朗普政府向第九巡回上诉法院提出请求，要求就该案作出裁决，驳回指派该案的地区法官的决定。他们设定的截止日期为周六。
据洛杉矶县登记处办公室消息，目前该州至少18个县已收到类似函件。这些县被给予48小时期限，需提供与联邦政府认为非法登记投票的非公民所收到的选票相对应的身份信息。函件要求县官员还需封存所有无法核实公民身份的选票。
“任何选举官员若故意处理非公民的选票，都将面临法律风险，”联邦助理检察官比尔·埃赛利表示。
司法部要求各县提供涉嫌非公民选民的相关信息，包括社会安全号码、身份证件信息、选民登记副本及更多材料。
发送给圣贝纳迪诺县选举官员的函件指出，这些信息可帮助联邦与州政府快速评估每位涉嫌非法登记投票的人员。该函件称，联邦政府怀疑该南加州内陆县有1133名非公民选民。
加州州务卿与洛杉矶县登记官均反对联邦政府的要求。加州律师在法律文件中表示，这一要求可能推迟选举结果认证，损害11月中期选举的合法性。他们还辩称，联邦政府的数据不可靠，其要求存在剥夺公民选举权的风险。
加州的投票工作正在进行中，该州超过2300万名登记选民已于本月初收到邮寄选票。加州在法律文件中表示，目前已计票超过33万张邮寄选票。
本周五的函件发布之际，联邦当局本周早些时候刚开展全州范围的清查行动，从那2万名涉嫌人员名单中起诉了28名非法登记投票者。部分人员还被控非法投票及在入籍文件上撒谎，这些指控可能导致数年监禁。
司法部民权司已提起31起诉讼，旨在迫使各州移交未隐去信息的选民登记册副本。该司称此举旨在确保各州保持干净的选民名单，但随后承认，其还打算将数据分享给国土安全部，以便对名单进行非公民筛查。
民权司助理司法部长哈米特·迪隆于7月向所有50个州发送函件，威胁称若各州明知非公民仍留在选民登记册中，将采取刑事行动。
迄今为止，司法部已输掉26起此类案件，尚未取得任何一项胜诉。
“这不是演习：唐纳德·特朗普与托德·布兰奇正试图干涉加州选举，”加州民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚在本周五的声明中表示，“特朗普领导的司法部未提供任何大规模选民欺诈指控的证据。他们已承认所援引的数据不准确且不可靠。无论提起多少诉讼或威胁多少选举官员，他们都没有干涉的权力。”
DOJ demands that some California counties set aside and verify alleged noncitizen ballots within 48 hours
October 23, 2026 / 10:54 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Federal prosecutors sent letters to county registrars across California on Friday demanding that local officials set aside and verify ballots that the Justice Department said may belong to noncitizens, according to the Los Angeles County registrar and a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
The letters are the latest escalation in a legal battle between California and President Trump’s Justice Department, which has recently focused on the state in its efforts to root out noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. Data shows illegal voting by people who aren’t U.S. citizens is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.
Earlier this month, the federal government targeted L.A. County and the California Secretary of State’s office in a lawsuit that aimed to block them from counting the votes of more than 20,000 people who it alleges are “likely” noncitizen voters. A hearing on the case is scheduled for Tuesday.
The Trump administration on Friday asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the lawsuit barring a decision from the district judge assigned to the case. They set a deadline for Saturday.
Now, according to the L.A. County registrar’s office, at least 18 counties across the state have received similar letters. They have been given a 48-hour deadline to provide identifying information corresponding with ballots that the federal government believes were sent to noncitizens illegally registered to vote. The letter requests that county officials also sequester any ballots where citizenship cannot be verified.
“Any election official who knowingly processes the ballot of a noncitizen is opening themselves to legal jeopardy,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.
The Justice Department is asking counties to send information about the voters it suspects are noncitizens including Social Security numbers, ID information, a copy of their registration and more.
That information can help the government and state quickly assess each person suspected of illegally registering to vote, said the letter sent to San Bernardino County voting officials. The letter says the government’s list of suspected noncitizen voters includes 1,133 people from the inland Southern California county.
California’s secretary of state and the Los Angeles County registrar have opposed the federal government’s demands. In legal filings, lawyers for California say the request threatens to delay the certification of the vote and undermine the legitimacy of the November midterms. They have also argued that the federal government’s data is unreliable and that their demands risk disenfranchisement of citizens.
Voting is underway in California, with the state’s more than 23 million registered voters receiving ballots in the mail earlier this month. The state said in legal filings that over 330,000 mail-in ballots have already been counted.
The letters on Friday came on the heels of a statewide sweep by federal authorities earlier in the week, where 28 people from the list of 20,000 were charged with illegally registering to vote. Some were also charged with illegally voting and lying on naturalization paperwork. Those charges could lead to years in prison.
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.
“This is NOT A DRILL: Donald Trump and Todd Blanche are trying to interfere in California elections,” Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California said in a statement Friday. “Trump’s DOJ has not provided any evidence for their claims of massive voter fraud. They’ve admitted that the data they point to is inaccurate and unreliable. No matter how many lawsuits they file or how many election officials they threaten, they do not have the authority to interfere.”
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