A federal judge said after a hearing on Oct. 27 that he will rule the following day on an emergency request by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block California from counting mail ballots from alleged noncitizens.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said he was concerned that the DOJ’s request to temporarily sequester ballots until voters’ citizenship can be verified might disenfranchise and confuse legitimate voters, saying it represented a “monumental change” to election procedures to implement while voting was already underway.
Carter said he would rule Oct. 28 on the federal government’s request for a temporary order preventing officials from counting any of the ballots from the individuals the DOJ has flagged as noncitizens….