{"id":30071,"date":"2026-11-07T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/?p=30071"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:02:04","slug":"justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-aside-disputed-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/07\/justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-aside-disputed-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move comes days after Republicans&#8217; significant losses in the midterm elections and about a week before a scheduled hearing where a special master was slated to evaluate the accuracy of the list of alleged noncitizens. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-aside-disputed-ballots\" target=\"_blank\">Go to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move comes days after Republicans&#8217; significant losses in the midterm elections and about a week before a scheduled hearing where a special master was slated to evaluate the accuracy of the list of alleged noncitizens. Go to story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[377,713,895,4,715],"tags":[381,4039,2459,717,813,221,896,719,163],"class_list":["post-30071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-midterms","category-california","category-midterms-2026","category-news","category-noncitizen-voting","tag-2026-midterms","tag-a","tag-ballots","tag-california","tag-elections","tag-midterm-elections","tag-midterms-2026","tag-noncitizen-voting","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30073,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30071\/revisions\/30073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}