Did CA Give Immigrant Activist Group Access to Voter Rolls? Objection to DOJ Report Suggests They Have Inside Info or Are Liars
The Trump administration is pushing back hard on left-wing claims that its list of potential noncitizen voters in California includes many people not registered to vote.
The federal government produced a list of 20,930 people whom it rated as questionable, and said if they vote in this year’s elections, those ballots should be set aside.
Two data analysts at the University of California, Los Angeles, claimed that more than 40 percent of the people on the federal list includes people not on the state’s voting list, according to the Associated Press, which trumpeted the UCLA claim as the “first outside analysis” of the federal list.
This is a bogus report by the activist illegal immigrant rights group CHIRLA. How would they know who is registered to vote and who is a citizen? They don’t (and shouldn’t) have access to any official records.
It’s remarkable that the media accepts whatever these people say as gospel yet won’t report on the sworn declarations we filed in evidence confirming more than 20,000 noncitizens are suspected to be on California’s voter rolls based on official @USCIS records.
This report also contradicts LA County’s report, which sampled 200 people on the list, all 200 of whom were re-confirmed as foreign-born aliens.
— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) October 31, 2026
UCLA’s Voting Rights Project filed a lawsuit challenging the federal set-aside request along with the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA.
Although the analysis said 42 percent of the names were not on voter rolls, no mention was made of whether the remaining 58 percent were noncitizens.
“This is a bogus report by the activist illegal immigrant rights group CHIRLA,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote on X.
“How would they know who is registered to vote and who is a citizen? They don’t (and shouldn’t) have access to any official records,” he wrote.
Essayli’s question raises others: If CHIRLA does have access to the rolls, how did that happen? Did the state or someone with access give the organization access, or is CHIRLA in the dark and simply making things up in the hopes of building a counter-narrative?
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“It’s remarkable that the media accepts whatever these people say as gospel yet won’t report on the sworn declarations we filed in evidence confirming more than 20,000 noncitizens are suspected to be on California’s voter rolls,” Essayli noted.
“This report also contradicts LA County’s report, which sampled 200 people on the list, all 200 of whom were re-confirmed as foreign-born aliens,” he wrote.
Essayli said in another post on X that “everyone on the list is a confirmed noncitizen.”
“We suspect they are all registered California voters based on the redacted voter list we obtained, requiring our own investigation to positively identify them,” he added, noting that if California had cooperated, the issue would have been settled.
“California could, but refuses to, provide the unredacted list, which would resolve this entire dispute in a matter of hours,” he continued.
President Donald Trump lashed out at court rulings that rejected the federal demand that the ballots be set aside.
Trump said the Justice Department found “20,000, but potentially Hundreds of Thousands, and maybe even Millions,” of fraudulent votes, “and the Court has just ruled against it.”
The Justice Department has said scrutiny of potentially ineligible voters is essential.
“Every ballot cast by an ineligible voter cancels out the vote of an American citizen,” Kiersten Pels, a representative of the department, said. “The Department makes no apology for protecting those votes.”
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