DOJ suing California over alleged noncitizen voting

The new legal battle is brewing tonight over allegations of voting by non-citizens. The Justice Department is suing California to try to block the state from counting mail-in ballots in the midterm election. Prosecutors say they want to cross-check those ballots with the list that allegedly contains 20,000 names of likely non-citizen voters. The DOJ says it gave that list of names to California election officials on Tuesday in a thumb drive and gave them 48 hours to respond or face legal action. Prosecutors have not provided any public evidence of these claims or methodology for their allegations. Analysts say non-citizen voting is incredibly rare, with 50 alleged cases nationwide this year out of 227 million registered voters. Governor Newsom responding to the lawsuit in a statement saying, Quote, this is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just weeks before Election Day. Courts may have cleared the federal government has no rule in running state elections.