(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Orange County registrar of voters for refusing to provide records regarding the removal of noncitizens from voter registration lists, and for failing to maintain accurate voter lists.
According to the lawsuit filed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, whose Civil Rights Division is handling the case, “the family member of a non-citizen in Orange County indicating that the non-citizen received an unsolicited mail-in ballot from the [the Orange County Registrar of Voters], despite lack of citizenship.”
After learning of this, the DOJ requested records showing the number of voter registrations canceled since January 2020 due to failures to satisfy the citizenship requirement and records relevant to each cancellation, including the voting histories associated with noncitizens…