INTRO: The Department of Justice delivers an update on its “Operation Protect the Vote” to crack down on voter fraud. First Assistant U-S Attorney for the Central District of California… Bill Essayli tells reporters the D-O-J is charging six more people with federal election crimes.
ACK: Bill Essayli – First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California – at the U.S. Department of Justice
TAG: The Department has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to separate those 20-thousand ballots. One immigrant-rights group finds nearly 40-percent of the names on the D-O-J’s list cannot be found on California’s voter rolls.
KEYWORD: Politics, Election, International, Legal, Crime



