Debt Desk — Debt Desk — October 24, 2026: Election Pressure, Oil Risk and Multifamily Credit
Good morning. It is Saturday, October twenty-fourth.
The national brief begins with another escalation in the federal government's involvement in this year's elections.
Federal prosecutors have ordered election officials in at least eighteen California counties to identify and set aside ballots that the Justice Department says may belong to noncitizens. The counties were given forty-eight hours to provide identifying information and to sequester ballots when citizenship cannot be verified.
This is the next step in a story we covered Friday. The department had already charged more…
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