Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
17%
3 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
60/100
Mother Jones's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
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Politics
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
The Trump administration’s bid to stop 20,000 “likely noncitizen” voters from casting midterm ballots in California appears to be based on a list that’s riddled with inaccuracies.
asserted
that → stop → inaccuracies
Two data analysts at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Voting Rights Project found that over 40 percent of the people the Department of Justice has deemed likely noncitizens were not even on the state’s voter rolls in the first place, and many others are likely legally eligible to vote.
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others → find → place
The analysts shared the conclusion in a legal filing on Saturday.
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analysts → share → Saturday
The Justice Department’s list was shared the day before as a result of the Voting Rights Project’s lawsuit with the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) against the Trump administration’s attempts to interfere in the election.
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list → share → election
In the lawsuit, CHIRLA and California voter Pedro Trujillo argued that the methods the federal government used to create its noncitizen voter list risk incorrectly labeling naturalized citizens and disrupt election administration.
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government → argue → administration
According to the Associated Press, the UCLA researchers found that nearly 7,500 naturalized citizens in the state were “highly likely” to have been inaccurately labeled as ineligible to vote.
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citizens → accord → state
Several California counties have also conducted checks and found numerous mistakes.
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counties → conduct → mistakes
The federal government first provided its list of 20,000 names to California on October 13, requesting they validate each individual’s citizenship status.
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they → provide → status
The state declined to help the Trump administration, prompting it to file a lawsuit seeking to “prevent unlawful dilution of American citizens’ votes and to protect the integrity of our nation’s elections.”
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state → decline → elections
As my colleague Ari Berman has written in the lead-up to the midterms, Trump is following through with his threats to weaponize the Justice Department over claims of supposed voter fraud.
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Trump → write → fraud
Federal prosecutors in California charged 28 people and arrested at least 11 from its list of 20,000 nearly two weeks ago, alleging without evidence they illegally registered to vote.
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they → charge → evidence
In a Tuesday hearing, the Justice Department told a federal judge that it created its entire list by checking a commercially-bought dataset containing partial California voter rolls against a government list of people who had been assigned numbers in the federal immigration system.
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who → tell → system
The administration has also threatened prosecution of state and local election officials who process ballots from its list.
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who → threaten → list
Trump acolytes quickly began refuting the data analysts’ findings Saturday night.
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acolytes → begin → findings
“This is a bogus report by the activist illegal immigrant rights group CHIRLA,” Bill Essayli, the US Attorney in Los Angeles’ district, posted on X.
“Every ballot cast by an ineligible voter cancels out the vote of an American citizen,” Kiersten V. Pels, a spokesperson for the Justice Department, wrote in an email to the Associated Press, arguing in support of the bid to discount the 20,000 votes.
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Pels → post → votes
“The Department makes no apology for protecting those votes.”
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Department → make → votes
Multiple judges have denied the federal government’s demands as unconstitutional and a threat to elections, but this has not stopped its requests to other states.
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this → deny → states
On Monday, the Trump administration asked Washington state to remove any ballots from more than 400 people it claims may be noncitizens.
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it → ask → people
The Aporia
