Lesley Stahl: Trump Intimidates California Elections, Putting Voting System Under Stress

‘It’s the latest in a sequence of actions that has bred an erosion of faith in the integrity of our elections’

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STAHL: “President Trump is using his power to intimidate the people who run our elections, putting the voting system under remarkable stress. The latest move came on Friday when the Justice Department threatened to prosecute California election officials if they knowingly count mail-in ballots from 20,000 people the Trump Administration says are “likely noncitizens.” It’s the latest in a sequence of actions that has bred an erosion of faith in the integrity of our elections. Our story focuses on how state and local election officials are being pressured in a way that is stoking that distrust. We start with what happened in Georgia this past January.”

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