Federal judge warns Trump administration bid to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots would ‘wreak havoc’

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A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s ongoing mail-in ballot counting, warning that the Trump administration’s request to segregate 20,000 ballots to vet voters’ citizenship would “wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway.”

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