A federal appeals court just greenlit California to count mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters the federal government says are likely noncitizens — and ordinary Americans' vote just got diluted again.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the Trump Justice Department's emergency request to block California from counting those ballots ahead of the November 3 midterms. The ruling means votes the federal government itself says were cast by ineligible voters will go into the certified totals — and there is no mechanism to pull them back out.
The Guardian framed the decision as a
