2026-10-14T11:56:30-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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2026年10月14日 / 美国东部时间上午11:56 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿——据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获得的一封信件显示，美国司法部已下令加州审查一份联邦政府认为可能在即将到来的11月选举中收到邮寄选票的人员名单，这些人员并非美国公民。
在10月13日的这封信中，代理副检察长特伦特·麦科特下达了48小时期限，要求对通过加密闪存驱动器提供的名单进行审查，以确定每个人的公民身份。
“对于你无法独立确认公民身份的个人，我们要求你立即指示相关选举官员将这些人的邮寄选票单独封存——而非作废——直至确定他们的公民身份，”麦科特写道。
“如果名单上的个人尚未收到邮寄选票，请立即采取一切合理措施，在我们确认其公民身份之前，不得向这些人提供选票，”他补充道。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系加州州务卿置评。
据一位知情人士透露，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获得的这封信是寄给洛杉矶县书记办公室的，但该州其他县也收到了类似信件。这封信发出之前，国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林曾在7月份告知加州州务卿，政府认为其选民登记册上列有非公民。
路透社最先报道了这封信的内容。
麦科特的要求是特朗普政府向蓝色州施压的最新举措，旨在核查这些州的选民登记册上是否存在非法投票的人员。
司法部民权司已提起31起诉讼，迫使各州提交未删减版的选民登记册。该部门表示，此举旨在确保各州维持干净的选民名单，但随后承认，他们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。
民权司助理总检察长哈米特·迪隆曾在7月份致信美国所有50个州，威胁称如果各州明知允许非公民留在选民登记册上，将采取刑事行动。
截至目前，司法部在这些案件中已输掉26起，尚未取得任何一场法律胜利。
该部门转而借助公开的选民名单和其他调查手段，试图找出可能在这些州登记投票的非公民。
自特朗普总统就职以来，司法部已对100多人提起与选民欺诈相关的刑事指控。
此次打压行动之际，特朗普总统仍在毫无证据地声称，2020年大选因选民欺诈而被窃取。
专家们在多项研究中反复证实，选民欺诈事件极少，数量不足以影响选举结果。
路透社上月发布的一项数据分析显示，自2000年以来，由于在处理驾照和州身份证过程中出现软件故障和文书错误，各州可能已将超过3万名自称非公民的人员加入选民登记册。
相对于登记选民总数而言，这一数字微不足道。人口普查数据显示，2024年大选期间，约有1.74亿人登记投票。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/millions-americans-have-already-voted-early-midterms/
数百万美国人已提前参加中期选举投票
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Top U.S. DOJ official orders California to review list of possible noncitizens who received mail ballots
2026-10-14T11:56:30-0400 / CBS News
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October 14, 2026 / 11:56 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The Justice Department has ordered California to review a list of people whom the federal government believes may have received mail-in ballots for the upcoming November election despite not being U.S. citizens, according to a letter reviewed by CBS News.
In the Oct. 13 letter, acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter imposed a 48-hour deadline to review the list of names, which were provided on a password-protected thumb drive, to determine the citizenship status of each individual.
“For individuals whom you cannot independently confirm citizenship status, we request that you immediately instruct the appropriate elections official to segregate — not cancel — those individuals’ vote-by-mail ballots until their citizenship status can be determined,” McCotter wrote.
“If individuals on the list have not yet been sent a vote-by-mail ballot, take all immediate and reasonable steps to not provide a ballot to those individuals until we confirm their citizenship status,” he added.
CBS News has reached out to California’s secretary of state for comment.
The letter reviewed by CBS News was sent to the Los Angeles County clerk’s office, but similar such letters were also mailed out to other counties in the state, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The letter comes after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in July told California’s secretary of state that the government believed there were noncitizens listed on its voter rolls.
Reuters was the first to report on the letter.
McCotter’s demands represent the latest effort by the Trump administration to press blue states on whether they have people who are unlawfully registered to vote on their rolls.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division 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.
Since President Trump took office, the department has criminally charged more than 100 people with voter fraud-related crimes.
The crackdown comes as the president has continued to allege, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen due to voter fraud.
Experts have repeatedly found across multiple studies that the incidents of voter fraud are minimal and have not been numerous enough to impact the outcome of an election.
A data analysis published last month by Reuters found that states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens to voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors that came about during the processing of driver’s licenses and state IDs.
That figure is small relative to the number of registered voters. In the 2024 election, Census data showed there were about 174 million people registered to vote.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/millions-americans-have-already-voted-early-midterms/
Millions of Americans have already voted early in midterms
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