The emergency application reached the high court after multiple lower judicial venues dismissed the Justice Department's efforts to intervene in state election administration. Federal officials had warned that counting the contested ballots would dilute legitimate votes, even deploying armed agents to threaten local election staff with criminal prosecution. State authorities countered that the federal list of flagged names was inaccurate and that isolating ballots amid an ongoing vote was practically impossible. The high court's one-line order leaves the lower court decisions intact and effectively terminates the federal challenge.
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California election administrators will proceed with counting the 20,000 disputed ballots…: California election administrators will proceed with counting the 20,000 disputed ballots without federal segregation requirements.
The high court's summary denial leaves prior lower court rulings fully in place ahead of…: The high court's summary denial leaves prior lower court rulings fully in place ahead of the midterm election.
State officials successfully defended their voting procedures against federal claims that…: State officials successfully defended their voting procedures against federal claims that non-citizens had improperly received ballots.
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The US Supreme Court has rejected a last-minute request by the Trump administration asking it to intervene in California's midterm election vote count.
The justice department wanted 20,000 ballots to be set aside that it alleged may have been issued to non-US citizens in the state.
Two lower courts had already rejected the request. State election officials had questioned the federal government's claims - saying the process used to identify alleged non-citizens was inaccurate.
The Monday ruling comes on the eve of the midterms, which will determine which political party controls the US Congress for the last two years of President Donald Trump's second term.
The Supreme Court announced its decision in a one-line order, saying it was denying the justice department's request for an injunction.
"The application for injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied," it reads.
Its means rulings made in lower courts will stand and essentially ends the Trump administration's bid to disqualify the ballots.
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