特朗普政府请求上诉法院介入加州选票诉讼司法部试图推动一项诉讼，该诉讼旨在迫使加州不将多达2万张邮寄选票计入统计，其声称这些选票被寄给了非美国公民。
Trump Administration Asks Appeals Court to Intervene in California Ballot Suit The Justice Department sought to jump-start a lawsuit aimed at compelling the state to not count as many as 20,000 mail ballots it claims were sent to noncitizens.
周四，司法部请求一家联邦上诉法院介入并加快审理针对加州的诉讼。在该诉讼中，司法部试图迫使加州不将多达2万张寄给选民的邮寄选票计入统计，并声称这些选民“很可能是非公民”。这一请求绕过了下级法院——该法院上周仍在审议政府的紧急请求。政府采取这些举动之际，正以非同寻常的手段审查中期选举，表面上是为查找选民欺诈的实例。相关行动——例如试图强迫各州交出选民名册，以及让国土安全部探员约谈近期入籍的公民、询问其投票历史——已在其他联邦法院案件中被阻止。
The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to step in and accelerate a lawsuit against California, where it has sought to compel the state not to tabulate as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots sent to voters it claims are “likely noncitizens.”The request jumped ahead of a lower court that was still considering the government’s emergency request last week. The government’s moves came as it has gone to extraordinary lengths to scrutinize the midterm elections, ostensibly in search of instances of voter fraud. Related efforts, such as trying to force states to turn over voter rolls and having homeland security agents interview recently naturalized citizens about their voting history, have been blocked in other federal court cases.
在周四提交的一份文件中，特朗普政府援引其请求的“关键且紧迫的性质”，并指责下级法院迄今的“沉默”阻碍了诉讼进程。它重复了此前的指控，称加州正在处理并计入“由不合格的非公民投出的邮寄选票，以非法参与联邦选举”。主审此案的法官、加利福尼亚中区联邦地区法院法官戴维·O·卡特已安排下周二举行听证会，审议政府的主张。
In a filing on Thursday, the Trump administration cited the “critical and exigent nature” of its request, and blamed a lower court’s “silence” so far for holding up the lawsuit. It repeated accusations that California was in the processing of sending and counting “vote-by-mail ballots cast by ineligible noncitizens to illegally participate in federal elections.”The judge presiding over the case, Judge David O. Carter of the Central District of California, had scheduled a hearing next Tuesday to consider the government’s claims.
目前尚不清楚特朗普政府依据了什么证据，也不清楚使用了哪些联邦数据或方法来生成这份2万人的名单。
It was unclear what evidence the Trump administration had relied on, or what federal data or methods had been used to create the list of 20,000 individuals.
在周一提交的一份文件中，政府写道，国土安全部“收到了似乎是2026年大选的加州选民名册”，并将其转交给美国公民及移民服务局，以与其移民数据进行核对。
In a filing on Monday, the government wrote that the Homeland Security Department had “received what appeared to be the California voter roster for the general election of 2026,” and forwarded it to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to check against its immigration data.
根据法庭文件，该机构制作了一份“经过筛选的个人名单”，国土安全部官员最终将其提炼成一份超过2万人的名单。
The agency produced a “refined list of individuals” that homeland security officials eventually distilled down to the list of more than 20,000 people, according to the filing.
加利福尼亚州选举官员表示，特朗普政府共享的数据存在大量遗漏，且难以解析。
California election officials have said the data shared by the Trump administration was riddled with omissions and difficult to parse.
在其他案件中，法官们对联邦移民数据用于筛选州选民名册的可靠性提出了担忧。特朗普政府为帮助判定个人公民身份而汇编的数据集屡次被发现过时，或无法可靠地用于确定公民身份。
Judges in other cases have raised concerns about the reliability of federal immigration data, as applied to screening state voter rolls. Data sets the Trump administration has compiled to help determine a person’s citizenship have repeatedly been found to be out of date or unreliable for establishing citizenship.
扎克·蒙塔古是《纽约时报》报道联邦法院的记者，报道内容包括围绕特朗普政府议程的法律纠纷。
Zach Montague is a Times reporter covering the federal courts, including the legal disputes over the Trump administration’s agenda.