The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Robert Page, the Orange County Registrar of Voters in California, accusing him of refusing to provide records related to the removal of non-citizens from the county’s voter registration rolls and failing to maintain an accurate voter list as required under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division said the case addresses violations of well-established federal election laws:
“Voting by non-citizens is a federal crime, and states and counties that refuse to disclose all requested voter information are in violation of well-established federal elections laws,” Dhillon said in a statement. “Removal of non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls is critical to ensuring that the State’s voter rolls are accurate and that elections in California are conducted without fraudulent voting. The Department of Justice will hold jurisdictions that refuse to comply with federal voting laws accountable.”
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