SacramentoNewsom warned judges federal agents may seize ballots before results are certified.
The Trump administration claims 20,000 California voters are “likely noncitizens,” which state election officials firmly reject.
Federal agents did this in January in Fulton County, Georgia, taking ballot boxes under a warrant a magistrate judge approved.
Data scientists told a court Saturday that the federal voter list contains thousands of errors.
Federal judges in California’s four districts would decide any warrant request.
How each outlet framed it
- The New York Times leans critical
- reads Newsom's 'alert' to the four district courts as a warning about ballot seizure, citing Fulton County's January search as precedent
Sources: The New York Times