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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to immediately rule on whether nearly 20,000 disputed votes in California can be counted. The federal government and California will continue the court battle on the 27th, and the pre-election schedule is extremely strict.
The federal appeals court voted two to one, dismissing the case on the 26th.California Can election officials count the estimated 20,000 votes cast?Ministry of Justice Accusations may be decided by ballots cast by non-citizens. The federal government and California officials will face off again before a federal magistrate judge on the 27th. With only a week left before Election Day on November 3, the federal government has very little time to ask California to throw out the above ballots.
The case is one of a series of legal setbacks the Trump administration has faced since it tried to expand federal control over states hosting elections, the Associated Press reported. Trump has worked for years to exclude non-citizens from voting, but current data shows that very few non-citizens actually vote.
In mid-October, the Trump administrationdemocratic party California’s powerful election officials filed a lawsuit accusing the state of failing to review the list of 20,000 potential noncitizen voters within a 48-hour deadline and asked a judge to block the state from counting those votes until an immigration status investigation is completed.
The Justice Department made a similar request in Washington state on the 26th. The party with majority in the House and Senate also participates in the elections of this state.
Both federal and state laws prevent non-citizens from voting. Los Angeles elections officials said in court documents that the majority of randomly selected voters identified by the Justice Department as immigrants appeared to be born in the United States. The Justice Department said that the counting of votes could be illegal, which would also harm democracy.
A California judge originally scheduled a hearing for the 27th, but the federal government appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the decision should be made quickly to avoid counting more votes.
Two of the three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected this argument on the 26th, holding that the federal government “failed to give the district court an adequate opportunity to consider” its initial request to separate the ballots.
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The Court held that the federal government did not allow the district court to fully consider its request and was therefore unwilling to intervene directly in the decision; Two of the three judges supported the dismissal, indicating that the appeals court will not consider this emergency claim for the time being.
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The Justice Department accused California elections officials of failing to review the list of nearly 20,000 people within 48 hours, demanding that questionable votes cast by non-citizens not be counted until immigration status checks were completed.
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Since there is only a week left before Election Day on November 3, the federal government has very limited time to ask California to throw out disputed votes; The two sides will return to the federal magistrate judge on the 27th to continue the confrontation.
