2026年7月7日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:35 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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莎拉·N·林奇 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻资深司法部记者
莎拉·N·林奇是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻华盛顿特区的资深司法部记者。
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美国司法部民权司负责人周二向全美50个州的选举官员发送信函，威胁称如果他们明知故犯允许非美国公民投票或将其留在选民名册上，将对其采取刑事行动，该部门向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实了这一消息。
信函还要求州官员解释他们打算如何遵守联邦法律，确保非公民不会投票。每个州都有五天时间作出回应。
“任何选举官员，包括州首席选举官员，如果明知故犯将非公民保留在州选民登记名单上，或协助非公民领取并投递选票，都可能面临刑事追责，”助理司法部长哈米特·迪隆在发给亚利桑那州、密歇根州和缅因州官员的相同版本信函中写道，该信函已由哥伦比亚广播公司新闻审阅。她补充说，两人或多人合谋剥夺公民的宪法权利同样构成犯罪。
“我们鼓励您联系我们，讨论贵州应采取哪些措施，以依法维护干净的选民名单，”她写道。
特朗普总统数月来一直声称，非美国公民经常在联邦选举中投票，尽管非公民投票的案例极为罕见。
总统推动参议院通过一项名为《拯救美国法案》的议案，该法案将要求美国人在现场登记投票时出示公民身份证明，并威胁称除非国会就此事采取行动，否则不会签署其他法案。
特朗普今年早些时候还签署了一项行政命令，将创建符合资格的联邦选民名单，并禁止美国邮政服务向未列入名单的人邮寄选票，但该措施已被一名联邦法官叫停。
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此次向各州发送信函之际，美国司法部仍在与数十个州打官司，要求他们提交未编辑的选民名册。
民权司表示，希望对这些名册进行筛查，以确保各州遵守要求维护干净选民名单的联邦法律，但最近也承认，它打算将数据分享给国土安全部，以便对名册进行非公民选民筛查。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道，国土安全部打算将从选民名册中收集的数据用于刑事和移民执法。
迄今为止，美国司法部在争取选民名册的斗争中尚未取得任何法律胜利，目前已在地区法院输掉11起案件。上个月，美国第六巡回上诉法院成为首个支持其中一项裁决的联邦上诉法院，裁定支持密歇根州。
美国司法部发言人在一份声明中表示：“司法部已向所有50个州和哥伦比亚特区发送了这些信函，要求它们及时自愿遵守联邦法律规定的义务，确保只有公民才能在联邦选举中投票。”
周二收到其中一封信函的亚利桑那州州务卿阿德里安·丰塞斯为该州的做法进行了辩护，他在一份声明中写道：“暗示亚利桑那州选举官员未能履职，完全没有事实依据。”
“暗指全州各县档案办公室的优秀工作人员没有正确履行职责，这是一种侮辱，”这位亚利桑那州民主党议员说。“亚利桑那州选举官员一直致力于确保只有符合资格的公民才能登记投票，我们将继续遵守亚利桑那州的法律——而非政治言辞或恐吓所发出的指令。”
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DOJ threatens criminal action against states that allow non-citizens to vote
July 7, 2026 / 9:35 PM EDT / CBS News
By Sarah N. Lynch
Sarah N. Lynch Senior Justice Department Reporter
Sarah N. Lynch is the senior Justice Department reporter for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C.
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The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sent letters to election officials in all 50 states on Tuesday threatening criminal action if they knowingly allow non-U.S. citizens to vote or to remain on their voter rolls, the department confirmed to CBS News.
The letters also asked the state officials to explain how they intend to comply with federal law and ensure non-citizens do not cast ballots. Each state was given five days to respond.
“Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s [state voter registration list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote in identical letters sent to officials in Arizona, Michigan and Maine that were reviewed by CBS News. She added that it is also a crime for two or more people to conspire to deprive people of their constitutional rights.
“We encourage you to contact us to discuss what steps your state should take to maintain clean voter lists as required by law,” she wrote.
President Trump has claimed for months that people who are not U.S. citizens frequently vote in federal elections, even though instances of noncitizen voting are extremely rare.
The president has pushed the Senate to pass a bill called the SAVE America Act that would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in-person to register to vote, threatening not to sign other bills unless Congress took action on the matter.
Mr. Trump also signed an executive order earlier this year that would create federal lists of eligible voters and bar the U.S. Postal Service from mailing ballots to anybody who isn’t listed, though that measure was blocked by a federal judge.
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The letters to states come as the Justice Department continues to litigate against dozens of states in an effort to get them to turn over unredacted voter rolls.
The Civil Rights Division has said it wants to screen them for compliance with federal laws that require states to maintain clean voter rolls, though more recently it also has acknowledged it intends to share the data with the Department of Homeland Security so the rolls can be screened for non-citizen voters. CBS News has previously reported that DHS intends to use the data collected from the voter rolls for criminal and immigration enforcement.
To date, the Justice Department has failed to obtain any legal victories in its fight for voter rolls, with 11 losses in district court so far. Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to affirm one of those rulings, siding with Michigan.
In a statement, a Justice Department spokesperson said: “The Department sent these letters to all 50 states and the District of Columbia, asking for voluntary compliance in a timely manner with their obligations under federal law to ensure only citizens vote in federal elections.”
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who received one of the letters Tuesday, defended his state’s efforts, writing in a statement that “the suggestion that Arizona election officials are failing to do their jobs is simply not supported by the facts.”
“It is insulting to insinuate that the good people at our county recorders’ offices across the state are not doing their jobs correctly,” the Arizona Democrat said. “Arizona election officials have always worked to ensure that only eligible citizens are registered to vote, and we will continue following Arizona law—not directions that come from political rhetoric or intimidation.”
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