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Washington state finds U.S. citizens on DOJ’s noncitizen voter list, rejects demand to set aside ballots (www.democracydocket.com)
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Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered. The revelation renews concerns about the accuracy of the Trump administration’s expanding effort to identify supposedly ineligible voters.

Secretary of State Steve Hobbs (D) disclosed the findings Wednesday in a blistering response to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which this week threatened litigation unless Washington stopped processing ballots tied to people on a list supplied by the Department of Homeland Security.

“A preliminary investigation confirms what your letter acknowledges: This list includes United States citizens and is not reliable,” Hobbs wrote. He said refusing to process a registered voter’s ballot without individualized proof of ineligibility would be “both irresponsible and illegal.”

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[–] 31 points 20 hours ago*

I think this is a better response to trying to do a full breakdown of how many of each category are wrong or missing. If there are citizens on the list at all the DHS didn't do their job and the list is an unreliable threat to lawful voters. No citizens should ever be on such a list. If you don't know who's a citizen you have no business making such a list at all.

Saying "it's mostly wrong, here's X citizens, Y people who have never been registered, Z people that don't live here in the first place" puts the onus on the voting official to investigate every name and gives conservatives ammo to pretend everyone not accounted for is an illegal voter.

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