It’s not a tough call.
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LA County and other California jurisdictions should comply with the Trump administration’s reasonable request to investigate noncitizens on the local voter rolls.
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But California Attorney General Rob Bonta disagrees.
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He had this to say: “I find it desperate.
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I find it embarrassing that this administration would engage in such conduct during an election.”
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Well, this immigrant-turned-naturalized citizen has thoughts as well.
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I found it embarrassing that no one ever wanted me to prove who I was in the good old days when Angelenos still voted in neighborhood polling places.
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I find it rather desperate to claim that, although noncitizen voting is a crime, California — home to Silicon Valley and allegedly filled with top thinkers in every field — insists state and local officials can’t open a secure thumb drive with a list of alleged noncitizen voters.
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I find it infuriating that the county of my birth, the island nation of Jamaica, is called “Third World” when it is capable of running elections quickly and efficiently.
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Jamaica also uses indelible ink and voter ID to ensure that no one is double-dipping into the electorate.
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(Maybe Rob doesn’t know that an estimated 90 counties have used this method.
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I also find it desperate to act as if a targeted, time-sensitive request, which is tied to specific ballots already in the pipeline under our universal mail-in voting system, is somehow akin to the Spanish Inquisition.
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The LA registrar-recorder, Dean Logan, also issued a statement, saying, “We have not accessed the drive because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and information security protocols.
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We do not consider the device a secure medium. …
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[A]ny action to remove a voter from eligibility must be based on verifiable information, not assertions of unconfirmed data matching.
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Our voter rolls are the fruit of a poisoned tree that starts with giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, then turns the Department of Motor Vehicles into a machine for automatic voter registration.
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The risks are compounded by turning government assistance programs — Medi-Cal, CalFresh, CalWORKs, WIC, General Assistance, and Covered California — into designated voter registration agencies.
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We hand out voter registrations like lollipops at the pediatrician’s office.
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It’s also hard to take claims about “verifiable information and data privacy” seriously when they come from officials in a state that has tolerated data breaches and widespread fraud.
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I’m all for safe and secure elections, and as chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, this is extra personal to me.
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It’s why I wrote an open letter to Attorney General Bonta, explaining that the mere appearance of shenanigans undermines democracy for all of us.
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Real investigations — even, and especially, those that reveal there is no problem — is the way to encourage confidence in the system, and voter participation.
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It’s also why I enumerated several irregularities from our recent primary in a letter I sent to the Department of Justice asking for election monitors for this election.
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People tell me every week that they receive excess ballots, thanks to California’s universal vote-by-mail system.
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California officials claim that excess ballots are very rare.
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(I always tell voters the same thing — to go directly to the registrar to correct the error.)
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I am glad that the Department of Justice wants to clean our voter rolls.
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Dean Logan should open the drive, perform the review, and hold the questionable ballots as requested.
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That would affirm the integrity of our elections.
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Who wouldn’t want that?
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You can find her on X at @RoxanneHoge.
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