Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee
Democratic legislators attempted to downplay the announcement Monday that federal authorities had accused 28 people of fraudulently registering to vote or voting in California. They suggested it was an effort by the Trump administration to distract and sow doubt in the state’s elections.
Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, who chairs the chamber’s elections committee, said in a statement the people charged represented a tiny number compared to the 23 million Californians who are registered to vote. Pellerin called it a “bad-faith attempt to fuel” President Donald Trump’s “baseless voter-fraud narrative and cast suspicion on millions of lawful voters.”
