A federal judge denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) emergency request to force California to sequester about 20,000 mail ballots the DOJ flagged as potentially mailed to noncitizens.
The ruling late on Oct. 28 by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter allowed the ballots to be counted in the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections.
Earlier this month, the DOJ asked Carter to sequester mail ballots for the Nov. 3 elections from more than 20,000 individuals that it suspects are noncitizens. The DOJ stated that California had failed to meet a deadline to complete a review of the suspected noncitizens, some of whom the department said had mailed in ballots….