Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit
Topics: Voting & Election LawCalifornia Politics
3 outlets (NYT, WSJ and CBS News) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 3 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “Court”, “California”, “aside”, “ballots”. Distinct wording: NYT uses “Intervene” and “Declines”; WSJ uses “immediately” and “government”; CBS News uses “dismisses” and “force”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- NYT reports: “Ballots being processed in City of Industry, Calif., during last year’s election.”
- WSJ reports: “The appeals panel had expressed skepticism of claims of noncitizen voting.”
- CBS News reports: “A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed the DOJ's effort to force California election officials to set aside thousands of ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by alle…”
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- NYT: Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit
- WSJ: A U.S. court rejected a Trump administration request to immediately require California to set aside mail-in ballots it gets from 20,000 people the federal government says might not be U.S. citizens
- CBS News: Court dismisses DOJ's request to force California to set aside ballots
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