In a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s battle over voting integrity, the Department of Justice has begun issuing criminal grand jury subpoenas to California election workers, seeking records on how the state prevents non-citizens from voting and any evidence of illegal ballots cast by aliens. This move comes just days after a federal judge rejected the DOJ’s plea to block California from counting mail-in ballots linked to over 20,000 registered voters whose citizenship the administration has questioned, with the judge explicitly ordering an immediate cessation of threats against state and county employees. Despite the DOJ’s assertion that receiving a subpoena doesn’t equate to being a target, the timing and nature of these subpoenas, particularly after the judicial rebuff, signal a hardening stance in the administration’s broader campaign to uncover widespread voter fraud, even as they acknowledge that unlawful voting is subject to criminal prosecution and have appealed the decision to separate potentially illegal ballots which may now be impossible to identify.
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