Justice Department seeks court order over alleged noncitizen voters in California

🗞️ Story file #760

Justice Department seeks court order over alleged noncitizen voters in California

Oct 21, 12 PM ET to Oct 22, 10 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

10outlets carried it
🫏6 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
22 hourson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
4 of 7parts of a saga

👣 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 21, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: Talking Points Memo
Oct 21, 1 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
Oct 21, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 21, 12 PM to Oct 22, 10 AM ET (peak 10), 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.

💬 quoted: “High percentage” 2 “batch” “likely” “Noncitizen Voters” “likely noncitizen” 2 “massive concession” “Absurd”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

NPR (2 wordings): “Some on DOJ's 20,000 "likely" noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-born” → “Some on DOJ's 20,000 'likely' noncitizen list in California appear to be U.S.-born”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian DoJ’s suspected non-citizens list includes ‘high percentage’ of those born in US, LA officials say Oct 20, 4 PM ET
The New Republic DOJ’s “Noncitizen Voters” List Filled With People Born in America Oct 21, 11 AM ET
ABC News 'High percentage' of DOJ's noncitizen voters list was born in US: LA County analysis Oct 20, 11 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Feds tease new ‘batch’ of noncitizen California voters as L.A. slams previous list Oct 20, 8 PM ET
NPR Some on DOJ's 20,000 "likely" noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-born Oct 20, 11 PM ET
Yahoo News Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting alleged noncitizen voters Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Bloomberg California Says Non-Citizen Voting Suit Borders on ‘Absurd’ Oct 20, 4 PM ET
Red State DOJ Details How It Found 20,000 Likely Noncitizens on CA Voter Rolls, Seeks Emergency Court Order Oct 19, 8 PM ET
The Blaze California makes 'massive concession' in lawsuit over 20,000 'likely noncitizen' voters, DOJ says Oct 21, 10 AM ET
Talking Points Memo DOJ’s List of Noncitizen Voters Exposed As Crap Oct 21, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News2 min

LA OFFICIALS: WE CAN'T VERIFY VOTER CITIZENSHIP Fox News, 59 s
U.S. ATTORNEY: CA ADMITTED TO NOT VETTING VOTERS Fox News, 38 s
LA CALIFORNIA VOTER REGISTRATION OF STATE OFFICIALS TUESDAY Fox News, 11 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Up First (NPR)

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Immigration policy abuse 🐘 1 right show
“The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute California election officials for processing ballots from non-citizens.”
🧩 Lawfare 🐘 1 right show
↔️ its answer: No one is above the law
“The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute California election officials for processing ballots from non-citizens.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Los Angeles County California

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 California noncitizen ballot dispute

DOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots
Oct 17, 9 PM ET
DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters
Oct 14, 11 AM ET
DOJ charges 28 noncitizens in California voter fraud case
Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Justice Department seeks court order over alleged noncitizen voters in California (this story)
Oct 21, 12 PM ET
Judge questions doj's claims of noncitizens on California voter rolls
Oct 23, 9 PM ET
Appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to set aside California mail ballots
Oct 25, 10 PM ET
DOJ charges 48 noncitizens in election-related crimes
Oct 26, 6 PM ET