[News] The Justice Department Warns the People Who Count California's Ballots That Counting Could Make Them Criminals
A day after asking a judge to hold back 20,000 California ballots, the Justice Department told the officials who run the count that doing their state-law duty could make them federal criminals, on a theory with no known prosecution of an election worker behind it, issued three weeks before a vote the department's own manual says it should generally avoid interfering with.
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