Article 79CQY California election official says federal agents threatened him over ‘voter fraud’

California election official says federal agents threatened him over ‘voter fraud’

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Sam Levin
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Keaton Denlay says agents handed him poorly formatted Excel spreadsheet' and threatened to criminally prosecute him

A California county elections official is speaking out about the Department of Justice's campaign against purported voter fraud", saying federal officials provided him a disorganized list of names filled with inaccuracies - and threatened to criminally prosecute him if he didn't take action.

Keaton Denlay, the county clerk-recorder for Butte county, a region north of Sacramento, said a federal agent on Friday hand-delivered what appeared to be a printout of a poorly formatted Excel spreadsheet with missing and jumbled information". The DoJ claimed the list was of 47 likely" noncitizens who were unlawfully registered to vote and demanded the county set aside their ballots. But Denlay said the document was riddled with errors and lacking crucial details, and he declined to act on it.

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