“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.

The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”

The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...

Great idea.

The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...