# Supreme Court rejects Trump administration bid to stop California counting disputed ballots

https://mins.news/en/item/126514

- BBC News, 2026-11-03 03:32 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5ynekkn5qko?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> The US Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s last-minute request to intervene in California’s midterm vote count. The Justice Department sought to set aside 20,000 ballots it said may have been cast by non-citizens, while state officials challenged the accuracy of its identification list. The ruling leaves lower-court decisions in place and effectively ends the effort to disqualify the ballots.

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