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Voting had already begun in California through mail-in ballots and early voting when the Justice Department sent letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter. The letters included a password-protected USB drive with names of people the federal government believes are likely noncitizens on voter rolls who were sent vote-by-mail ballots. The Justice Department gave officials 48 hours to act and asked them to review the data and hold ballots for people on the list pending verification.