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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re working with counsel and the Secretary of State\u2019s Office to determine the best course of action moving forward,\u201d Casparis said of a DOJ letter.<\/p>\n
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n
A Sacramento County elections spokesman said the county’s elections officials are “working with counsel” as it determines how to respond to a letter from federal officials about its voter rolls. <\/p>\n
Ken Casparis joined KCRA 3 to answer questions ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election. <\/p>\n
He confirmed that Sacramento County was among at least 18 counties whose election offices received a letter from the U.S. Justice Department<\/a> requesting sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, about voters it suspects are noncitizens<\/a>. <\/p>\n The letters come as a federal court is reviewing the Trump administration’s efforts to challenge California’s election laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a related development, federal prosecutors have charged 28 individuals<\/a> with alleged election-related crimes. That includes two people Sacramento County and one from Vacaville. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re working with counsel and the Secretary of State\u2019s Office to determine the best course of action moving forward,\u201d Casparis said of the DOJ’s letter. <\/p>\n Casparis explained that the county manages its voter rolls year-round and \u201cin off-election seasons we\u2019re constantly doing maintenance to make sure that they\u2019re updated.\u201d <\/p>\n He said that county elections staff processes voter registration forms, and eligibility is determined by the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n KCRA 3\u2019s Mike Cherry asked about the case of a Sacramento man accused of illegal voting who acknowledged to KCRA 3<\/a> after being arrested that he had a green card but was not a citizen. The man said he thought he had been qualified to vote because he had a REAL ID. <\/p>\n Casparis said that every registered voter in California, when filling out a voter registration form, must attest under penalty of perjury that they are eligible to vote in California. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd one of the first things that they attest to, one of the first lines on that form, that attestation, is that they are a United States citizen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Asked about the process to remove someone who should not be voting, Casparis said in such cases there would be a lengthy process where the county\u2019s registration team would work with the Secretary of State\u2019s Office to determine whether or not someone needed to be removed. <\/p>\n Casparis also talked about turnout for the midterm election so far. <\/p>\n He said the last midterm elections had about 56% total turnout. <\/p>\n \u201cAt this point in that election, we are a little bit ahead,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n As of Monday, the county had received nearly 145,000 ballots for about a 15.5% turnout rate. <\/p>\n Any registered voters in Sacramento County who have not received their ballot should contact the county\u2019s election office, Casparis said. <\/p>\n Tuesday will be the last day the county mails out ballots. But people can visit a vote center or stop by the elections office to be issued a new ballot if they still need one after that, he said.<\/p>\n Casparis also recommended people vote early to give the county more time to process the ballots.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re working with counsel and the Secretary of State\u2019s Office to determine the best course of action moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7166,1708,196250,1054,109494,94541,194359,76440,1838,4973,62029,189964,121,357,123,122,36686,8352,46460,68985,6799,13219,7379,86245,1710],"class_list":["post-508682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ballots","tag-california-elections","tag-california-elections-code","tag-doj","tag-election-office","tag-elections-office","tag-illegal-voting","tag-ken-casparis","tag-letter","tag-midterm-election","tag-non-citizens","tag-nov-3","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-region","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-turnout","tag-u-s-justice-department","tag-vacaville","tag-vote-center","tag-voter-registration","tag-voter-rolls","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}