{"id":896654,"date":"2026-10-27T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896654\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:32:09","slug":"doj-asks-washington-state-to-set-aside-400-ballots-it-says-may-be-noncitizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896654\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ asks Washington state to set aside 400 ballots it says may be noncitizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4GPTXULTSBHPJEBG253E4RFCQU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration asked Washington state Monday to set aside more than 400 ballots from individuals it claims may not be eligible to vote, following a similar request in California.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LUIU2HZETFHUHLSDX64IDG2FQI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cWe have identified over 400 non-citizens who are registered to vote and have voted in multiple elections,\u201d acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington Neil Floyd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\/pr\/federal-data-shows-hundreds-non-citizens-registered-vote-washington\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\/pr\/federal-data-shows-hundreds-non-citizens-registered-vote-washington\">said in a news release<\/a>, describing it as the \u201ctip of the iceberg.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration asked Washington state Monday to set aside more than 400 ballots from individuals it claims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-896654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}