The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information about the removal of non-citizens from voter registration lists from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder — including sensitive data, such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers and birth dates.
The ask, sent to the county registrar last month, follows a slew of similar Justice Department requests to election officials in at least 19 other states, seeking information about voter fraud and non-citizen voting.
President Donald Trump , who has often repeated false claims of voter fraud since his 2020 election loss, has made voting reform a key fixture of his second term in office. The president signed an executive order in March that would institute sweeping changes to existing voting laws, and the Justice Departme