Clean California's voter rolls, and show the work
Critics of voter-roll enforcement love one line: This never happens. Federal prosecutors answered on Monday with 28 defendants. Operation Protect the Vote charges 28 green-card holders with allegedly registering or voting as citizens, and agents arrested 11. They’re presumed innocent, and they deserve their day in court. The rest of us deserve two things too: a state that cleans its rolls promptly and accurately, and a Justice Department that proves its numbers before it asks a judge to freeze ballots.
TL;DR
- Federal prosecutors charged 28 green-card holders in "Operation Protect the Vote".
- The defendants are accused of allegedly registering or voting as citizens.
- Eleven of the defendants were arrested.
- The charges include felonies that carry potential prison sentences.
- The article calls for states to clean their voter rolls and for the Justice Department to provide evidence before seeking to freeze ballots.