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More Than 40% of Names on Federal Noncitizen Voter List Not Found on California Rolls

An analysis reported by ABC News and PBS NewsHour found that more than 40 percent of names on a Department of Justice list of possible noncitizen voters in California do not appear on the state's voter rolls.

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ABC News reported that more than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state's voter rolls.

A separate report by PBS NewsHour, which carried a story by Nicholas Riccardi of The Associated Press, described the analysis as "first outside analysis" of a list that the Department of Justice has used to threaten prosecution of election officials.

According to the PBS NewsHour report, the analysis also found that thousands of U.S. citizens appear to be flagged as ineligible to vote on the government's list.

The two reports have nearly identical headlines, but the available summaries do not state explicitly that they describe the same analysis. Neither summary identifies the group that conducted the analysis.

Neither summary includes a response from the Department of Justice or from California election officials. The available material does not say how many names were reviewed in total or how many citizens were flagged.

Sources: ABC News: More than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens not on California's voter rolls: analysis; PBS NewsHour: Analysis: More than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens not on California's voter rolls.