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Midterm Elections

  • Trump’s crackdown on immigrant voting in California is a ploy to influence election

    California’s voting rights are at the center of a political battle over allegations of noncitizen voting and proposed voter identification requirements. Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

    California’s voting rights are at the center of a political battle over allegations of noncitizen voting and proposed voter identification requirements. Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

     

    The federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens in California is obviously aimed more at having a political impact than combating serious crime.

    It bolsters President Donald Trump’s repetitive, but unproven, claims that Democrats have stacked the political deck by allowing non-citizens to vote. It singles out California, a deeply blue state and a whipping boy in elections across the nation.