Trump administration threatens to prosecute local California election workers

The Trump administration is escalating its feud with California over allegations of noncitizen voting, threatening on Friday to criminally prosecute election workers who knowingly tabulate ballots belonging to noncitizen voters.

"The legal consequences for either facilitating or ignoring a federal crime are significant," Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general, wrote in a letter to Los Angeles officials . "Noncitizen voting in a federal election is a federal crime--and knowingly facilitating such conduct is equally unlawful."