🧵 Saga file #59
California election legal battle
Oct 14, 11 AM ET to Oct 18, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 42outlets carried a part
- 🫏15 · 7 · 18🐘left · center · right
- 4.3 daysrunning so far
- 19 minof TV captions
- 16radio newscasts
- 19people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 17, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 20 hoursDOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots
- Oct 14, 11 AM ET · on the front pages 4.3 daysDOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters
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1. DOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots
Oct 17, 9 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 20 hours
“DOJ says California officials who process ballots from suspected noncitizens risk prosecution” first: PBS NewsHour
· 🧶 retold by 14
2. DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters
Oct 14, 11 AM ET · 42 outlets · on the front pages 4.3 days · 🔴 now
“DOJ Issues Ultimatum To California: Review List Of Alleged Noncitizen Voters Or Else!” first: HuffPost, Reuters
📺 CNN 10 min, Fox News 8 min, MSNOW 54 s · 📻 16 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 5
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- The Trump administration is threatening to jail California election officials over unproven claims about noncitizen voters. told by 14 people, on “DOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots”
- The DOJ is suing California to block the counting of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters. told by 5 people, on “DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters”