{"id":7131,"date":"2026-10-16T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/16\/federal-government-sues-california-over-mail-in-ballot-citizenship-checks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:08:34","slug":"federal-government-sues-california-over-mail-in-ballot-citizenship-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/16\/federal-government-sues-california-over-mail-in-ballot-citizenship-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Sues California Over Mail-In Ballot Citizenship Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has sued California, demanding that the state stop counting mail-in ballots from individuals the federal government suspects are non-citizens until their citizenship can be verified. This legal action escalates a contentious battle over election integrity, with federal officials expressing concerns about potential non-citizen voting in federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>California officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, have vehemently opposed the lawsuit, calling it an overreach and accusing the Trump administration of making unsubstantiated claims and attempting to disrupt the electoral process. They assert that California has strong existing laws to prevent non-citizens from voting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/14\/us-sues-california-in-fight-over-checking-citizenship-of-mail-voters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has sued California, demanding that the state stop counting mail-in ballots from individuals the federal government suspects are non-citizens until their citizenship can be verified. This legal action escalates a contentious battle over election integrity, with federal officials expressing concerns about potential non-citizen voting in federal elections. California officials, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.bloomberg.com\/v2\/image\/iLqj4Yp6e5U8\/T-Voting-ballot-drop-box.jpg?width=780&height=438&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-gavin-newsom","rifnote_executive-markwayne-mullen","rifnote_executive-shirley-weber","rifnote_executive-trent-mccotter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.bloomberg.com\/v2\/image\/iLqj4Yp6e5U8\/T-Voting-ballot-drop-box.jpg?width=780&height=438&fit=crop","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}