In the latest escalation of the Department of Justice’s efforts to block California from counting some ballots, prosecutors sent individual letters to numerous county registrars Friday demanding that they sequester ballots sent to voters they suspect are not U.S. citizens.
Officials in four California counties confirmed to the Chronicle that they received a letter.
In two letters obtained by the Chronicle, the Justice Department’s top Northern California prosecutor on Friday gave the registrars in Contra Costa County and Santa Clara counties 48 hours to pore through lists totaling more than 1,300 voters and confirm their citizenship…