BND - DOJ demands California review voter rolls for noncitizens

🗞️ Story file #468

DOJ demands California review voter rolls for noncitizens

Oct 14, 11 AM ET to Oct 14, 6 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

17outlets carried it
🫏8 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
7 hourson the front pages
17front pages at once, at its peak
2radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 14, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The New Republic
Oct 14, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 14, 4 PM ETpeak: on 17 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 11 AM to Oct 14, 6 PM ET (peak 17), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (Yahoo News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “likely noncitizens”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 doj threatens 🫏 threatens california

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Newsmax (2 wordings): “With Calif. Ultimatum, DOJ Ratchets Up Nationwide Voting Fight” → “With Calif. Ultimatum, DOJ Is Ratcheting Up Nationwide Voting Fight”
Red State (2 wordings): “DOJ Warns CA Against Counting Suspected Noncitizen Ballots, Sets 48-Hour Compliance Deadline Jennifer Van Laar” → “Election Integrity DOJ Warns CA Against Counting Suspected Noncitizen Ballots, Sets 48-Hour Compliance Deadline Jennifer Van Laar”
Reuters (2 wordings): “EXCLUSIVE: US Justice Department threatens California over alleged noncitizen voters, letter shows” → “EXCLUSIVE: US Justice Department threatens California over alleged noncitizen voters, letters show”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Exclusive-US Justice Department threatens California over alleged noncitizen voters, letter shows” → “Exclusive-US Justice Department threatens California over alleged noncitizen voters, letters show”

Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating