According to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office, earlier this year, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles sent a letter to the county elections office that included a list of 63 people believed to be non-citizens and registered to vote in…. According to the California Secretary of State's website, only U.S. citizens over the age of 18 on Election day, not currently serving a state or federal prison term for a felony conviction, and not found mentally incompetent to vote are eligible to….

KEYT reported that san Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office Investigating Voting Violation Referrals From Federal and County Authorities. SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT), Local prosecutors are investigating a referral from federal authorities that 63 people are suspected of being non-citizens and registered to vote as well as two referrals from county-based elections officials about potential illegal voting this….

According to District Attorney Dan Dow, his office is prioritizing investigations into illegal voting allegations then moving to investigate alleged voter registration violations and that there were two total referrals from local elections officials about suspected illegal voting this elections cycle. District Attorney reported that every eligible voter in San Luis Obispo County should vote, and every lawful vote deserves to be protected,. Federal and state laws establish clear requirements for determining voter eligibility, maintaining voter registration records, safeguarding confidential voter information, and processing ballots,.

In Thursday's announcement, the District Attorney's Office shared it is simultaneously investigating the list of 63 people provided by the Justice Department as well as referrals from San Luis Obispo County elections officials regarding potential illegal voting in this election cycle. Jump to comments ↓. District Attorney said, “Every eligible voter in San Luis Obispo County should vote, and every lawful vote deserves to be protected,”.

With Election Day approaching on November 3, I want to assure San Luis Obispo County voters that our focus remains where it belongs: conducting a secure, fair, accurate, and transparent election,. Our voters deserve to know that their personal information is protected, their eligibility is determined according to law, and their legally cast ballots will be counted. Those commitments are not negotiable.

The demands presented in the DOJ's letter are not a substitute for those legally prescribed procedures. A list of individuals alleged to be ineligible to vote does not, on its own, authorize our office to set aside their ballots or disregard established….

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The First Assistant's Office for the Central District of California asked that the ballots of the identified people be set aside and not processed until their citizenship was confirmed at a later date detailed the local prosecutor's office.

San Luis Obispo County elections offices were not alone in being tasked by the Trump Administration with making fundamental changes to voting procedures recently.

A federal judge ruled just yesterday that demands issued to elections officials in Los Angeles County and the California Secretary of State's Office that resulted in a federal lawsuit requesting that ballots be set aside instead of counted likely would violate federal….

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