Trump escalates election rhetoric, pressures California over voter rolls
TL;DR
President Trump and allies intensified claims of voting-system vulnerabilities, pressing California and other Democratic states to hand over voter rolls and threatening fines or criminal charges and the withdrawal of federal election grants, as critics note flawed methods and that noncitizen voting is rare; courts and privacy concerns further complicate the administration’s push before the midterms.
- Trump escalates election attacks, threatens California over voter data Los Angeles Times
- What to know about the Trump administration's claim that 250K noncitizens are registered to vote in 4 states CBS News
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatens states over elections NBC News
- Trump DHS using unverified figures to attack election officials on non-citizen voting CNN
- Trump says 278,000 noncitizens are on voting rolls. Experts say that’s wrong. The Washington Post
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