'Filed in error': Trump admin admits DOJ filed wrong document in voting fraud case meant for another state entirely
Source: Law & Crime
May 17th, 2026, 8:24 am
The Trump administration, by way of the U.S. Department of Justice, has made a substantial mistake, a court filing on Friday attests. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet K. Dhillon and several prosecutors in the division filed a motion to withdraw a document filed in error in New Hampshire federal court.
The two-page motion to withdraw "respectfully" asks the court in a September 2025 Granite State election fraud case to "withdraw its filing" which is a notice of supplementary authority filed early Friday. "The Notice was filed in error and was not intended for filing in this matter," the motion reads. "The United States respectfully requests that the Court withdraw [the erroneous filing] from the docket."
The mea culpa also notes that the DOJ filed its "intended filing" immediately after filing their motion to withdraw. The misplaced supplemental authority notice was actually related to a Minnesota voting fraud case – which the DOJ filed against the Land of 10,000 Lakes, as well as the Minnesota secretary of state, on the exact same day the New Hampshire case was filed last year. This is not the first time the second Trump administration has had to alert a court to a filing error. And, in fact, the types of errors have been quite different.
In early October 2025, the DOJ filed a 28-page response in opposition to a motion for a temporary restraining order in a case about the firing of federal workers during the government shutdown. A great deal of that work was done with little attention to detail. On at least 19 occasions, the document is pockmarked with various iterations of the phrase: "Error! Bookmark not defined." In many instances, the phrase is rendered in all caps. The error message is native to Microsoft Word and means a user has updated a field with a broken link to a bookmark. Or, in other words, a change was made attempting to point to a link that no longer exists.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/filed-in-error-trump-admin-admits-doj-filed-wrong-document-in-voting-fraud-case-meant-for-another-state-entirely/
Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28129835-errata-nh-mn/
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28129835/errata-nh-mn.pdf
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