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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Trying to Undermine the Election

Save this storySave this storyPolls are looking pretty bleak for Republicans—and the Trump administration’s various attempts to interfere with the elections haven’t been too successful either.

民调对共和党人来说看起来相当惨淡，而特朗普政府为干预选举所做的各种尝试也并没有取得太大成功。

In recent weeks, the Department of Justice, helmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche, a proponent of conspiracy theories about widespread noncitizen voting in the 2020 election, has pulled out all the stops to sow doubt in voters’ minds about the security and validity of the electoral process.

最近几周，在司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）的领导下，司法部竭尽全力在选民心中播下对选举过程安全性和有效性的怀疑。布兰奇本人曾支持关于2020年大选中存在大规模非公民投票的阴谋论。

To do this, the DOJ has spent the past year demanding unredacted voter rolls, issuing executive orders to wrest control of elections from states, raiding election offices, proposing new laws to disenfranchise millions of citizens, and claiming that noncitizens were voting en masse across the country. (Incidents of verified noncitizen voting are vanishingly rare, as multiple bipartisan investigations have shown.)

为了做到这一点，司法部在过去一年里要求获取未经删节的选民名单，发布行政命令从各州手中夺取选举控制权，突击搜查选举办公室，提议制定剥夺数百万公民投票权的新法律，并声称非公民在全国范围内大规模投票。（正如多项两党调查所显示的那样，经证实的非公民投票事件极其罕见。）

There have also been escalating threats by the DOJ against election officials. On Thursday, the DOJ sent letters to election officials in all 50 states warning them that they would pursue criminal action if they failed to preserve election records for 22 days. Earlier that week, a federal judge had admonished the Trump administration for making similar threats around criminal prosecution against election officials in a different case.

司法部对选举官员的威胁也在升级。周四，司法部致信全美50个州的选举官员，警告称如果他们未能保存选举记录22天，司法部将对他们采取刑事行动。本周早些时候，一位联邦法官曾因特朗普政府在另一起案件中对选举官员发出类似的刑事起诉威胁而对其进行了训斥。

“They’re trying to create chaos and distrust in the system,” says Shelby Wayment, staff attorney at UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. “They’re trying to file these now knowing they have virtually no chance of winning and then after they can claim the election was fraudulent.”

加州大学洛杉矶分校法学院“捍卫民主项目”（Safeguarding Democracy Project）的专职律师谢尔比·韦门特（Shelby Wayment）表示：“他们试图在系统中制造混乱和不信任。他们明知这些诉讼几乎没有胜算，却还是选择现在提起，这样事后他们就可以声称选举存在舞弊。”

“This Department is following the facts and the law, not anyone’s political timetable,” a spokesperson for the DOJ tells WIRED, pointing out that the previous administration’s Justice Department sued Alabama and Virginia ahead of the 2024 election, claiming the DOJ was at the time trying “to stop them from removing suspected noncitizens from their voter rolls.”

司法部发言人告诉《连线》（WIRED）杂志：“本部门遵循的是事实和法律，而不是任何人的政治时间表。”该发言人指出，上届政府的司法部曾在2024年大选前起诉阿拉巴马州和弗吉尼亚州，并声称当时的司法部是在试图“阻止他们从选民名单中剔除涉嫌非公民的人员”。

Experts say that while the DOJ’s current legal efforts, including escalating fights in Alaska and California over candidates and voter rolls, are faltering, they’re also designed to lay the groundwork to question the results of this week’s vote.

专家表示，虽然司法部目前的法律行动（包括在阿拉斯加州和加利福尼亚州就候选人和选民名单进行的升级斗争）正在受挫，但这些行动旨在为质疑本周投票结果奠定基础。

“We have to expect absolutely, if the election doesn’t go the way the president wants, that we will see the administration’s attempt to sow doubts in the election and maybe even challenge those results, but I’m also not worried about it,” David Becker, a former DOJ lawyer and the head of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, tells WIRED.

前司法部律师、选举创新与研究中心负责人大卫·贝克尔（David Becker）告诉《连线》：“我们必须绝对预料到，如果选举结果不符合总统的意愿，我们将看到政府试图在选举中播下怀疑的种子，甚至可能挑战这些结果，但我对此并不担心。”

“They have failed at everything they’ve tried to do. Our systems have held firm. Our institutions have held firm.”

“他们尝试做的每一件事都失败了。我们的系统依然稳固。我们的机构依然稳固。”

Thirty-four federal district courts have ruled against President Trump since he took office in 2025, blocking access to voter rolls and preventing executive orders being implemented, according to analysis from the Brennan Center.

根据布伦南中心（Brennan Center）的分析，自2025年就职以来，已有34家联邦地方法院做出了不利于特朗普总统的裁决，阻止了其获取选民名单，并阻止了行政命令的实施。

Justin Levitt, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, thinks that a lot of the actions taken by the Trump administration are about a show of force and optics more than anything else. “What you’re seeing now is a ton of marketing. They are trying to communicate that they’re in charge, and I think it’s not working,” says Levitt, now a law professor at Loyola Marymount University. “But it is really important to remember that the federal government isn’t in charge of the election process. State and local officials are.”

曾任司法部民权司副助理检察长的贾斯汀·莱维特（Justin Levitt）认为，特朗普政府采取的许多行动更多是为了展示力量和制造舆论效果。“你现在看到的是大量的营销。他们试图传达他们掌控局面的信息，但我认为这并不奏效，”现任洛约拉马利蒙特大学法学教授的莱维特说，“但必须记住，联邦政府并不负责选举过程，州和地方官员才负责。”

WIRED has laid out the details of the DOJ’s legal efforts in California, Nevada, Washington, and Alaska below, which have all been met with disdain from local and state officials.

《连线》杂志在下文中列出了司法部在加利福尼亚州、内华达州、华盛顿州和阿拉斯加州采取的法律行动细节，这些行动都遭到了当地和州官员的蔑视。

CaliforniaCalifornia is officially a hotbed of election controversy. In October, the DOJ filed a federal lawsuit seeking a court order against California to compel the state to sequester mail-in ballots associated with approximately 20,000 voters, claiming that these voters were noncitizens. On Wednesday, a federal judge, in a strongly worded order, rejected the request.

加利福尼亚州正式成为选举争议的温床。10月，司法部提起联邦诉讼，寻求法院下令强制加州隔离约2万名选民的邮寄选票，声称这些选民是非公民。周三，一位联邦法官在一份措辞强硬的命令中驳回了这一请求。

“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” US District Judge David Carter wrote in his order filed late on Wednesday.

美国联邦地区法官大卫·卡特（David Carter）在周三晚间提交的命令中写道：“在美国历史上，联邦政府从未在选举前夕试图强迫州和地方政府放弃其自身的宪法选举程序，并屈从于行政部门的意志。”

Almost immediately, the DOJ filed an appeal, and a federal court quickly denied it.

司法部几乎立即提起上诉，但联邦法院很快予以驳回。

The judge pointed out that similar claims from the administration about noncitizens on voter rolls hadn’t held up to scrutiny, and he had “further questions of credibility” about how they arrived at that number in the first place.

法官指出，政府关于选民名单中存在非公民的类似说法经不起推敲，而且他对他们最初是如何得出这个数字存有“进一步的信誉质疑”。

Last week, a federal judge also ruled that the DOJ had to turn over its list of around 20,000 names to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, so that the group could analyze the dataset. On Saturday, the group submitted a legal filing stating that an analysis of the list found that over 40 percent of the names weren’t even in the state’s current voter files. In response, the DOJ has suggested that the publication of their analysis violated the terms of the lists released to them and is urging a federal judge to consider whether contempt charges might be applicable here.

上周，一位联邦法官还裁定，司法部必须将其约2万人的名单移交给“人道移民权利联盟”（Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights），以便该组织分析数据集。周六，该组织提交了一份法律文件，称对名单的分析发现，超过40%的名字甚至不在该州当前的选民档案中。对此，司法部暗示该组织公布分析结果违反了名单发布条款，并敦促联邦法官考虑是否可以对该组织提出藐视法庭的指控。

“The DOJ has clearly written rules that prevent it from engaging in any investigative activity close to an election—rules that private attorney Todd Blanche cited when representing his client, Donald Trump, in September 2024,” Becker says. “But the DOJ continues to violate its own policies.”

贝克尔说：“司法部有明确的书面规定，禁止其在选举临近时进行任何调查活动——这些规定正是私人律师托德·布兰奇在2024年9月代理其客户唐纳德·特朗普时所引用的。但司法部却继续违反自己的政策。”

To cap it all off, the DOJ issued grand jury subpoenas to California’s local election officials last week, indicating that despite repeated court losses it has no intention of backing down.

最重要的是，司法部上周向加州地方选举官员发出了大陪审团传票，这表明尽管在法庭上屡屡受挫，但它无意退缩。

AlaskaIn October, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit designed to block certification of the election result in Alaska’s US Senate race if Democrat candidate Mary Peltola wins.

阿拉斯加州：10月，司法部提起诉讼，旨在如果民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉（Mary Peltola）获胜，就阻止阿拉斯加州美国参议院竞选结果的认证。

The reason for the lawsuit is the presence of a spoiler candidate on the ballot with a name simil

诉讼的原因是选票上出现了一名名字相似的搅局候选人。