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Federal Push to Segregate 20,000 California Votes Summarily Denied · GNM News

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  Speaker 1: The United States Supreme Court has delivered a major setback
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  Speaker 1: to the administration's election litigation strategy, turning down an emergency
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  Speaker 1: appeal aimed at forcing California election authorities to segregate and
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  Speaker 1: withhold more than 20,000 mail-in ballots. The high court rejected
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  Speaker 1: the federal request without issuing a written opinion or recorded dissents,
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  Speaker 1: marking a definitive halt to a high-profile legal effort launched
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  Speaker 1: in the final weeks leading up to the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: The administration's emergency petition represented a significant escalation in its
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  Speaker 1: federal oversight campaign targeting state election administration protocols. Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice attorneys argued that extraordinary federal intervention was necessary to
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  Speaker 1: compel local registrars to set aside specific mail-in ballots from
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  Speaker 1: individuals flagged on administrative lists of alleged noncitizens. Federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: maintained that failure to isolate the targeted votes prior to
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  Speaker 1: final tabulation would inflict irreparable harm on federal election integrity standards. However,
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  Speaker 1: state officials, county clerks, and legal experts vigorously challenged the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's claims in lower court proceedings. State attorneys demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: that the administrative cross-referencing used by federal law enforcement relied
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  Speaker 1: on outdated immigration records that repeatedly misidentified fully naturalized US citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Lower federal court judges had issued sharp rulings blocking the
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  Speaker 1: federal demand, warning that forcing local administrators to alter established
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  Speaker 1: ballot handling procedures on the eve of voting violated constitutional
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  Speaker 1: principles reserving election oversight to individual states. By declining to
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  Speaker 1: grant an emergency stay, the Supreme Court effectively exhausted the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's immediate legal avenues to alter ballot counting procedures
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  Speaker 1: in California. With the high court's summary denial leaving lower
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  Speaker 1: court injunctions intact, local election officials across all 58 counties
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  Speaker 1: are continuing normal tabulation operations, ensuring that all validly cast
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballots are included in official midterm election tallies.