[News] The Justice Department Asks a Court to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots and Concedes It Cannot Check the Names in Time
Federal lawyers want California to hold back roughly 20,000 mail ballots in the middle of a live election on the strength of a list that shrank from 190,832 names in July, was never explained to the state, and that the department's own complaint says it cannot verify before the election ends.
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