🗞️ Story file #653
Federal authorities arrest Over two dozen noncitizens in California voter fraud investigation
Oct 19, 2 PM ET to Oct 19, 6 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean
- 23outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 3 · 12🐘left · center · right
- 4 hourson the front pages
- 25front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
👣 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 19, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Oct 19, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 19, 5 PM ETpeak: on 25 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “These are not isolated instances”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 alleged noncitizen 🫏 green card holders 🫏 sweep targeting
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Bloomberg (2 wordings): “US Agents Arrest 11 in California Over Alleged Illegal Voting” → “US Agents Arrest 11 in California on Alleged Illegal Voting”
- Breitbart (2 wordings): “Federal Officials Arrest Over Two Dozen Connected with Illegal Voting in California” → “Federal Officials Arrest Over a Dozen Connected with Illegal Voting in CA”
- Just the News (2 wordings): “DOJ charges 28 non-citizens found on voter rolls: 'These are not isolated instances'” → “DOJ charges 28 non-citizens found on California voter rolls: 'These are not isolated instances'”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “DOJ: Over 2 Dozen Charged in Calif. Noncitizen Voter Op” → “DOJ: Over 2 Dozen Charged in Calif. Noncitizen Voter Sweep”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Trump DoJ announces arrests of 28 green card holders in California on noncitizen voting related charge” → “DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud”
- Townhall (3 wordings): “The Feds Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in California” → “Election Integrity The Feds Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in California Jeff Charles”
Every outlet's first headline (23), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Feds Arrest 11 People In California Accused Of Illegally Registering To Vote, Voting In Elections Oct 19, 4 PM ET
The Guardian
Trump DoJ announces arrests of 28 green card holders in California on noncitizen voting related charge Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Los Angeles Times
Feds arrest alleged noncitizen voters in California amid broader election fight with state Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Mediaite
Trump DOJ Charges Green Card Holders in California With Voter Fraud Oct 19, 5 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen foreign nationals in California sweep targeting noncitizen voters Oct 19, 1 PM ET
Yahoo News
Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting alleged noncitizen voters Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Bloomberg
US Agents Arrest 11 in California Over Alleged Illegal Voting Oct 19, 3 PM ET
Fortune
Feds arrest more than two dozen green card holders in California for allegedly voting, weeks before the midterms Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Scripps News
Politics DOJ charges dozens in California sweep targeting alleged noncitizen voters AP via Scripps News Group Oct 19, 4 PM ET
Just the News
DOJ charges 28 non-citizens found on voter rolls: 'These are not isolated instances' Oct 19, 1 PM ET
The Washington Times
Feds accuse 28 noncitizens of unlawfully registering to vote in California Oct 19, 4 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Federal voter fraud arrests intensify California clash days after DOJ warned election officials Oct 19, 3 PM ET
Breitbart
Federal Officials Arrest Over Two Dozen Connected with Illegal Voting in California Oct 19, 2 PM ET
New York Post
Federal agents smash huge voter fraud ring in California — days after state issued ultimatum Oct 19, 11 AM ET
Newsmax
DOJ: Over 2 Dozen Charged in Calif. Noncitizen Voter Op Oct 19, 1 PM ET- OAN DOJ: Over 2 dozen noncitizens arrested in Calif. voter fraud crackdown ahead of Nov. elections Oct 19, 3 PM ET
PJ Media
Feds Arrest 28 Noncitizens Accused of Illegally Registering to Vote in California Oct 19, 4 PM ET
Red State
FBI Crushes Major Voter Fraud Ring in California After Trump's Ultimatum to Newsom Oct 19, 11 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Justice Department Charges 28 Non-Citizens for Registering to Vote in California.. Developing… (VIDEO) Oct 19, 3 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Feds arrests dozens of arrest foreign nationals illegally registered to vote who have cast ballots in California: report Oct 19, 12 PM ET
Townhall
The Feds Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in California Oct 19, 3 PM ET
Talking Points Memo
DOJ Charges 28 People In Big Show of Cracking Down on Noncitizen Voting Ahead of Midterms Oct 19, 6 PM ET
The Washington Sun
DOJ Charges Dozens of Immigrants in California Amid Bitter Elections Battle Oct 19, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- OFFICIALS: U.S. CITIZEN INJURED IN CALIFORNIA ICE INCIDENT CNN, 55 s
- FEDS NAB 28 ALLEGED NONCITIZEN VOTERS IN CA PROBE Fox News, 28 s
- FOX CAPTURES DOJ RAID OF ALLEGED ILLEGAL CA VOTERS Fox News, 20 s
- ICE INCIDENT UNDER SCRUTINY CNN, 17 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: California Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Justice Department Green Card Holders
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.