October 2024 – Imagine you are a county voter registrar. You receive a voter application containing the following: a full name you do not commonly see; a foreign birthplace; and a checkbox indicating that the applicant is not a U.S. citizen. Do you approve that application without question? In dozens of records disclosed to PILF in a federal lawsuit this year, it appears Alameda County, California, officials accepted self-confessed foreign nationals’ applications for voting.

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