The Trump campaign and state Republicans are demanding that a state Nevada court temporarily stop election officials in Nevada County from counting early votes, accusing election officials of misusing the mail ballot and refusing to include their observers.
The president of the Nevada Republican Party, Michael MacDonald, said in a statement Friday that “the trouble is that those who believe in running our election must be compelled by court to abide by state law and secure this election.” “We engage President Trump in the fight for transparency and accountability in Nevada’s electoral system.”
The lawsuit, first reported by the Nevada Independent, follows a letter sent by state Republican Party lawyers to Clark County election officials this week, outlining several complaints, including sanctions on its election observers and threats of legal action. Address.
Filed in state court in Carson City early Friday morning, the Trump campaign lawsuit follows months of complaints from Republicans in Nevada about the election process.
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. “Ballots do not need to be counted until Election Day and are also counted for the days following Election Day, given the provisions of AB4.”
Republicans finally mounted earlier this year Failed bid in federal court Citing concerns about voter fraud, blocking state election changes in response to the epidemic, including Nevada’s move to send mail ballots to all active voters in the state this year.
The decision by a Nevada judge to suspend the ballot count in Clark County could significantly delay the outcome of the state of war, with changes in Nevada’s primarily mail-in-ballot election and additional steps to process the mail ballot – so-called “signatures” – Introduces the process of tabulating preliminary ballots.Newada also started voting in person last week and voting will open on election day.
In both the letter and his lawsuit, Republicans claimed that the Clark County Registrar had failed to present a written plan for how the general public could observe the early ballot process. They also disputed observers at the count’s facilities, including blocking access to “rooms dedicated to resolving ballet questions” or installing cameras to monitor tabulation, citing COVID-19 concerns.
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In the lawsuit, Republicans also objected to how Clark handled the County Mail Ballot, claiming that county officials “deliberately reduced the tolerance number” on the processing machine, leading to fewer unacceptable signatures.
In a statement Thursday before the news of the lawsuits, county spokesman Dan Cullen called many of the GOP’s complaints “misleading or inappropriate” and said Clark County had “gone up and down to provide access to inspectors.”
“We have met with representatives of both parties to discuss this issue and have made some of the changes they have requested, and we will continue to work with them,” Cullen said.
Cullen also claimed that in some areas of the Republicans the request to violate the privacy of voters was violated and that the request to install cameras by law is “probably not approved.” He emphasized concerns about protecting Ballet’s privacy, which Republicans also raise in his letter, saying he was abusive about the “two-person, bipartisan bird counting board.”
Nevada Democrats dismissed Republican claims as “baseless attacks to undermine confidence in Nevada’s electoral integrity.”
“So, it’s not surprising that now that Democrats in Clark County have a significant mail ballot lead, Republicans are playing a more desperate game. Voters are demanding a clear amount of repression, plain and simple, GOP claims,” Nevada State Democrat Party chair William McCurdy II said in a statement.
Clark County is the largest county in the state of war by population, comprising about three of Nevada’s four inhabitants. Election officials in Nevada were allowed to begin counting votes from Oct. 19 under an electoral reform package passed in response to the coronavirus epidemic.
Beth Drysdale, a spokeswoman for Voe Shoe County – Nevada’s second most populous city – said Friday she didn’t know any voters were being denied entry to their own ballot tabulation location and would provide their own live stream of their constituency.
“We have not received any requests to do so, but it is a service to our community that we have already provided,” Drysdale said.
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