A federal judge rejected the Trump DOJ’s attempt to force California to segregate ballots, blocking a move that threatened to undermine public confidence in midterm election results.
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Justice department had demanded state segregate ballots from people it claimed were non-citizensA federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms.The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks after the justice department delivered a USB drive to election officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento that it said contained the names of 20,000 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls. There are more than 23 million registered voters in California and non-citizen voting is extremely rare. Continue reading...
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