Justice Department gives California 48 hours to review list of suspected noncitizen mail voters

In a letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter gave the state 48 hours to determine whether any citizens are on a federal list of people it believes are likely noncitizens who were sent mail ballots for the Nov. 3 election. The department asks that those people's ballots be set aside until citizenship is confirmed and warns it would seek emergency relief if the state does not comply. Weber's office did not immediately comment. AP notes the Justice Department has charged about 90 people this year with election misconduct, 50 of them for allegedly voting as noncitizens, and that noncitizen voting is exceptionally rare.