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LAS VEGAS: The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden’s victory in the state official on Tuesday (Nov. 24), approving the state’s final scrutiny of the Nov. 3 election.
The unanimous action of the seven non-party judges sends the Democratic governor. Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from America’s western battlefield state to Biden.
The court action generated additional scrutiny amid legal efforts by the state Republican Party and Trump’s campaign to prevent sending vote-by-mail ballots to the 1.82 million active registered voters and then halting the counting of the 1 , 4 million votes cast.
Nevada’s six Democratic presidential electors are scheduled to meet Dec. 14 in the state capital of Carson City.
Biden won Nevada by 33,596 votes, based on results approved by elected officials in all 17 Nevada counties, including Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, and Washoe County, which includes Reno.
Biden got 50.06 percent of the vote and Trump 47.67 percent.
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Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican who has avoided public attention in recent weeks, presented the results to the court.
He highlighted the first use of voting by mail across the state in a general election, same-day voter registration and early voting.
“The result was more of a hybrid model in which voters had the option to participate,” he said, adding that a record number of voters participated.
The certification of the vote does not stop several pending lawsuits in state and federal courts.
They include offers by two Republican congressional candidates and a state Senate challenger to get new votes in those races, a public record case by the state Republican Party, and a U.S. District Court action alleging that thousands of ineligible people voted.
A federal judge in that case rejected an offer for an immediate injunction that would have stopped the use of a signature verification scanner during vote counting.
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Jesse Binnall, a Trump campaign attorney handling an election challenge pending before a state court judge, said Tuesday that he intends to show that so many fraudulent votes were cast statewide that Trump won Nevada.
Turnout among the state’s more than 1.8 million active registered voters was nearly 77.3 percent, including mail, early voting and ballots cast amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the secretary of state.
That was up from a 76.8 percent turnout during the 2016 presidential election, when Democrat Hillary Clinton edged Nevada by just under 2.5 percent over Trump.
Nevada was one of several states that were required to certify elections on Tuesday.
