The US Supreme Court has rejected a last-minute request by the Trump administration asking it to intervene in California’s midterm election vote rely.

The justice division needed 20,000 ballots to be put aside that it alleged may have been issued to non-US residents in the state.

Two decrease courts had already rejected the request. State election officers had questioned the federal authorities’s claims – saying the course of used to establish alleged non-citizens was inaccurate.

The Monday ruling comes on the eve of the midterms, which will decide which political occasion controls the US Congress for the last two years of President Donald Trump’s second time period.

The Supreme Court announced its choice in a one-line order, saying it was denying the justice division’s request for an injunction.

“The application for injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied,” it reads.

Its means rulings made in decrease courts will stand and primarily ends the Trump administration’s bid to disqualify the ballots.

California is the most populous state in America with some 23 million folks on its voting register. As of Sunday night time, more than six million mail-in ballots had already been acquired, according to the California secretary of state’s workplace.