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Election tensions escalate in California as DOJ charges 28 people with voting crimes

NPR | By Jude Joffe-Block
Published October 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM PDT

The Justice Department says it has charged 28 green card-holders for allegedly voting or registering to vote illegally. The DOJ is taking steps that local officials describe as election interference.

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Jude Joffe-Block
Jude Joffe-Block is a reporter at NPR covering how power, politics and influence intersect and how information circulates. Her beat includes the federal government’s unprecedented efforts to link and aggregate data sets on people living in the United States.