Judge denies DOJ bid to isolate 20,000 California mail ballots
A federal judge on Wednesday denied the Department of Justice’s bid to force California to set aside mail ballots associated with more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens, rejecting an emergency intervention less than a week before the midterm elections.
TL;DR
- A federal judge denied the DOJ's request to set aside mail ballots from over 20,000 suspected noncitizens in California.
- The decision was made by U.S. District Judge David Carter, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton.
- The DOJ sought to have election officials hold these ballots until citizenship could be verified.
- The judge's ruling leaves California's existing ballot-processing procedures in place ahead of the midterm elections.