UCLA data scientists find 42% of Trump's California 'non-citizen voter' list absent from rolls

Two data scientists from UCLA's Voting Rights Project found that 8,880 names — 42 percent of the total — on the Trump administration's list of "likely non-citizen" voters do not appear anywhere in California's current voter files, according to a court filing submitted Saturday by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).

The administration's list, delivered to California in early October, identified 20,930 people as "likely non-citizens" registered on the state's voter rolls. It underpins a lawsuit filed on October 15 seeking to sequester any ballots sent to those individuals before they can be counted.

The UCLA analysis also found that thousands of names on the list may correspond to eligible US citizens wrongly flagged as ineligible. The filing, co-signed by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra, warned that election officials acting under criminal and civil threats could endanger the voting rights of CHIRLA members and clients.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the federal complaint a second time on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional and stating the administration's request would "contravene the Elections Clause by undermining the Constitution's plain text."

The lawsuit is unfolding days before Election Day, which will determine control of both chambers of Congress. Nevada, which received a similar federal list, found none of the names on it were non-citizen voters.