Federal judge bars DoJ from threatening election workers to stop processing ballots
Summary
A federal judge barred the Justice Department from threatening election workers or pressuring them to stop processing ballots, and from demanding that officials set aside ballots the federal government considers potentially ineligible. Separately, a federal appeals court rejected the department’s request to have California hold disputed ballots from the midterm election until voters’ citizenship could be verified.Key Facts
- The federal judge issued the order late Friday.
- The order bars the Justice Department from demanding that local officials segregate or not count ballots the federal government deems potentially cast by ineligible voters.
- The Justice Department says California sent ballots to about 20,000 people who may not be U.S. citizens.
- California officials say the list is unreliable and likely includes many U.S. citizens.
- A district court judge denied the Justice Department’s request on Wednesday and warned that it could disenfranchise citizens.
- The Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that identifying and separating the specific ballots could cause serious harm to the election system.
- California officials say hundreds of thousands of ballots have already been processed and processed votes cannot be matched back to the voters who submitted them.
- Los Angeles’s top federal prosecutor warned that election officials who knowingly process a noncitizen’s ballot could face legal jeopardy.
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