A partisan battle is heating up in Orange County over whether the Registrar of Voters should release sensitive voter data to the U.S. Department of Justice.

At issue is to what extent non-citizens are voting in U.S. elections — and what rights the federal government has to the private information contained in state and county voter rolls.

The Justice Department sued Orange County Registrar Bob Page earlier this year after he refused to hand over, without a warrant, the full records of 17 people that Page had previously removed from voter rolls because they weren’t citizens. Their registration was canceled either because they self-reported being a noncitizen or because the Orange County District Attorney’s Office determined the person was ineligible to vote.

Page confirmed Wednesday th

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