# Newsom spars with Trump-appointed prosecutor over 20,000 suspected noncitizens on voter rolls

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/newsom-spars-with-trump-appointed-prosecutor-over-20000-suspected-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls/
- Published: 2026-10-21T16:44:27+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-21T17:42:13+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-spars-trump-appointed-prosecutor-20000-suspected-noncitizens-voter-rolls
- Topics: Elections, Politics, World

## Key points

- Newsom and a federal prosecutor dispute voter citizenship checks.
- The Justice Department flagged more than 20,000 California registrations.
- Los Angeles County says it cannot independently verify citizenship.

## Summary

California Governor Gavin Newsom and federal prosecutor Bill Essayli clashed over whether the state should do more to check the citizenship of voters. Their dispute centres on a Justice Department lawsuit seeking checks on more than 20,000 people it suspects may be noncitizens, and raises questions about how election officials should handle federal warnings about voter rolls.

The Justice Department says a preliminary comparison of California voter records with immigration data identified the group, and asked a court to hold associated mail ballots until citizenship is verified. Los Angeles County election official Monica Flores said her office lacks the authority and information to verify citizenship independently; it had already processed 331,000 ballots by Tuesday. In a review of 200 listed records with county addresses, the office found 112 were cancelled or inactive, while 38.9% of records with a reported birthplace indicated the voter was born in the US.

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