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He added: "The voters will have their say on both of us at the ballot box next May."

Tables were arranged in the middle of a sports hall, black ballot boxes started to arrive and the counting began.

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, looks askance at many of the cases that prosecutors have brought, suggesting the ballot box — rather than a courtroom — may be the better venue to litigate the matter.

"These losers lost at the ballot box and soon they will also lose in court," a spokesperson for Newsom said in a statement to BBC News.

“These losers lost at the ballot box and soon they will also lose in court,” Brandon Richards, a Newsom spokesman, said Thursday.