Five federal grand jury subpoenas obtained by inewsource show a Department of Justice investigation seeking San Diego County voting records escalated over the summer in a series of requests for voting histories, voter registration applications, citizenship attestations and supporting documentation.
The Imperial County registrar of voters told inewsource that she has also received a federal subpoena for voter records and a summons from the Department of Homeland Security this year after having received no subpoenas in the three prior years.
The developments reveal a sweeping investigation into county voter records by Department of Justice prosecutors in Southern California. The local effort coincides with a national effort by the DOJ to force the state of California to comb through its voter rolls for alleged noncitizen voters that culminated in the U.S. attorney general filing a lawsuit against the state on Thursday…