US Appeals Court Rejects Bid to Block California Mail Ballot Count

TREE NEWS update: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on October 26 rejected a federal government request to bar California from counting mail ballots cast by people on a list of more than 20,000 registered voters. The federal government claimed those individuals may not be US citizens. The Justice Department said 28 people on the list face criminal charges for alleged illegal voting, but the government did not state how many mail ballots those on the list had actually submitted.