Appeals court again rejects DOJ’s bid to segregate over 20,000 alleged noncitizen ballots in California NBC News Top Stories By: Dareh Gregorian · Lawrence Hurley · Gary Grumbach 30 October 2026 at 23:09 A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s latest bid to force California to set aside ballots from over 20,000 people it alleges might be noncitizens.