00:02The Justice Department is also widening a criminal investigation into California election
00:07officials even after a judge ruled against the Trump administration, which wants California
00:12to throw out 20,000 mail-in ballots purportedly sent to non-citizens who were ineligible to
00:17vote.
00:18Those claims remain unsubstantiated.
00:20However, multiple news outlets reported that all four U.S. attorneys in California had
00:25begun issuing subpoenas, seeking voter records that the Trump administration has so far
00:29been unable to obtain.
00:31The investigation is part of a broader effort by the administration to depict this year's
00:36midterms as rigged to help Democrats, a claim that President Trump has repeatedly made on
00:41the campaign trail.
00:42Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County Registrar, called the subpoenas an intimidation tactic.
00:47In his statement, he said, quote, at every step, the U.S. Department of Justice has taken
00:52a confrontational, adversarial approach.
00:54Election officials are acting in accordance with state and federal law.
00:59Depending on the law of the administration.
01:01He will be right-of-the-missory procedures for department officials, the U.S. Department of Justice
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