Dean C Logan

Well, once again, the state of California and the federal government are going at it, this time over California's voter rolls.

The DOJ and US attorney Bill Isley have sent a letter and a thumb drive to the registrar of voters in Los Angeles County, Dean Logan, as well as the Secretary of State in the state of California, Shirley Weber, saying that there are 20,000 illegal ballots in Los Angeles County.

They didn't reference any other counties in the state, but they say 20,000 people who are registered to vote who got a ballot should not be.

The state of California immediately filed back saying, "We don't believe you." [laughs]

And it might not even be that they intended to.

There's probably plenty of people out there, if this is true, that they have no idea they're registered to vote because, as you said, it is done automatically.

Administration sent a thumb drive to Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan's office containing what they claim is a list of likely non-citizen registered voters, and along with the thumb drive, a sticky note with a handwritten password to view the list.

[laughs] Story's getting weirder.

Well, once again, the state of California and the federal government are going at it, this time over California's voter rolls.

The DOJ and US attorney Bill Isley have sent a letter and a thumb drive to the registrar of voters in Los Angeles County, Dean Logan, as well as the Secretary of State in the state of California, Shirley Weber, saying that there are 20,000 illegal ballots in Los Angeles County.

They didn't reference any other counties in the state, but they say 20,000 people who are registered to vote who got a ballot should not be.

The state of California immediately filed back saying, "We don't believe you." [laughs]

And it might not even be that they intended to.

There's probably plenty of people out there, if this is true, that they have no idea they're registered to vote because, as you said, it is done automatically.

Administration sent a thumb drive to Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan's office containing what they claim is a list of likely non-citizen registered voters, and along with the thumb drive, a sticky note with a handwritten password to view the list.

[laughs] Story's getting weirder.

This lawsuit came minutes after the 48-hour deadline that the Department of Justice gave the state of California.

The defendants are the state, the Secretary of State, Shirley Weber, and the Los Angeles County Registrar, Dean Logan.

The complaint admits that it is, quote, "not practical or feasible" for the Department of Self ju- Department of Justice itself to investigate the people on the list before the election.

Hell, they can't even settle on a number.

The Justice Department's put California on the clock.

In a letter sent Tuesday, October 13th, acti- acting Deputy Attorney General, uh, Trent McCotter told California Secretary of State Sheler- Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Reco- Registrar Recorder Dean Logan to review within 48 hours a federal list of registered voters the government believes are likely non-citizens who were sent mail-in ballots for the November 3rd election.

If the state and county do not put the request process in place by noon on Thursday, the letter says the United States will have no choice but to seek emergency relief in court.

[coughs] So here's my online.

The state mails ballots to all registered voters.

The federal government didn't specify where the 20,000 voters were concentrated, but the list was sent directly to the LA County Registrar Dean Logan on Tuesday.

His office said the list contained names of voters throughout California, not just in LA, even though Logan is the only county election official named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

He does not have jurisdiction over ballots outside of LA County.

Yeah, exactly.

So, um, on Tuesday, both Shirley Weber, Secretary of State, and then Dean Logan, LA Registrar of Voters, they received letters from the federal DOJ saying that, um, the, the federal government suspected there were 20,000 or so, um, non-citizens on California's voter rolls, and basically demanding that they show proof of citizenship for these people before their ballots could be counted.

And these letters were, um, accompanied by a password-protected thumb drive with a sticky note on the letter with the password.

[laughs]

Um, which Dean Logan said they obviously didn't plug into their computer because that wouldn't really be in congruence with their cybersecurity standards at the elections division.

Like amateur hour.

May- a little bit, yeah.

"If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation's representative system of government." And in the letter that McCotter sent to the Los Angeles County Reg- Recor- Registrar-Recorder County Clerk, he enclosed a password-protected thumb drive that he said contained names compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and imposed a 48-hour deadline for the clerk's office to review the list.

Dean Logan, the Registrar-Recorder and Clerk, said in a statement responding to McCotter's demand- That the county would not be reviewing the materials on the thumb drive because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and information security protocols.

He said the device was not considered a secure medium.

Secretary of State Sh- Sherry Weber, meanwhile, said the Justice Department had not provided the list of names and blasted the Trump administration for what it said was unsubstantiated claims that California had 190,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls.

On Tuesday, the department gave, uh, the state 48 hours to review the names, set those ballots aside.

Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder Dean Logan refused to open the password-protected, uh, thumb drive the department delivered.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Democrat, of course, says the state's safeguards against not as- non-citizen voting are robust.

The Justice Department says it's not asking to purge anyone, only to hold those ballots until citizenship is confirmed.