Legal filing questions Trump’s claims of non-citizen voting in California
Author: Al Jazeera Staff and The Associated PressPublished on: October 31, 2026Country: United States
PoliticsCrime & Law

An analysis by two UCLA data scientists, submitted to court on Saturday by the advocacy group CHIRLA, challenges a list of “likely non-citizen” voters sent to California by the Trump administration. More than four in 10 names were not on the state’s voter rolls, and thousands of potentially eligible US citizens were wrongly identified as ineligible. The list, which suggested as many as 20,930 people were registered, underpins a lawsuit seeking to prevent ballots sent to those voters from being counted in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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