Trump Administration Asks Court To Protect Democracy From Counted Votes

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to protect American democracy from the dangerous presumption that registered voters should have their votes counted. The Justice Department wants California to segregate more than 20,000 mail ballots cast by voters federal databases describe as “likely” noncitizens, a rigorous constitutional category meaning a government computer experienced concern. A federal appeals court rejected the emergency request after California officials disputed the list’s accuracy and noted that ballot processing was already underway, an administrative technicality the department said should not interfere with a sufficiently urgent allegation.

President Donald Trump endorsed the government’s new electoral standard of guessing first and investigating after the winners are sworn in. “These are very likely people, maybe the likeliest people anyone has ever seen, and when somebody is likely, you cannot let them vote until they prove they are completely unlikely,” Trump said, explaining the nation’s longstanding principle of presumed foreignness. Under the administration’s approach, citizenship remains legally valid until a spreadsheet suggests otherwise, at which point the voter must personally defeat the spreadsheet in court before polls close.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber maintain that eligible citizens should not lose their ballots merely because an error-prone federal list placed them under bureaucratic suspicion. Their position would require the government to obtain evidence before depriving citizens of political rights, potentially creating severe workloads for officials accustomed to typing “FRAUD” in capital letters and letting constitutional doctrine assemble itself. Justice Department attorneys also emphasized the importance of waiting until election machinery was already moving. Earlier action might have allowed California to verify names, correct errors and resolve the dispute calmly, recklessly depriving the country of a frantic Supreme Court showdown. The justices must now determine whether voting remains a right or becomes a limited-time privilege reserved for citizens fortunate enough not to resemble a database typo. In the United States, a ballot is now presumptively fraudulent until it votes Republican.

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