California officials brace for unprecedented election interference by Trump administration
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Set us as preferred Top officials in California are bracing for unprecedented election interference from the Trump administration in coming days, including potential ballot seizures.They are warning the public about such actions in striking messages casting President Trump and U.S.Department of Justice officials as threats to the vote and to American democracy.
They have begged federal judges to reject warrant requests and hold the line against lawless probes.They have deployed armies of election lawyers and volunteer monitors, particularly to areas where congressional races could be close.“California is dead serious about the security of [Tuesday’s] midterm elections.
If Trump tries to meddle with California’s ballots, you can be sure as hell that we’ll prosecute those who help him,” Gov.Gavin Newsom said Monday.
“Californians deserve a free and fair election, and that is exactly what we’ll deliver.”Those efforts, echoing others from Democrats in Congress and liberal officials in other political battlegrounds, are like nothing seen before in the U.S., and in response to an equally extraordinary campaign by the Trump administration to intervene in state-run elections based on claims — espoused by Trump for years — that voting in places such as California has been corrupted by widespread fraud.On Monday, Justice Department officials redoubled their effort to block about 20,000 California ballots from voters who they allege may be noncitizens by appealing to the U.S.Supreme Court, after lower courts rejected the request — and as another judge in a separate challenge barred them Monday from demanding California officials segregate the same ballots.
The Supreme Court denied the request.They and local partners also rolled out criminal charges against seven noncitizens accused of illegally voting or register...