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According to Fox News, the Trump campaign and the Nevada Republicans are requesting that state judge put a halt on Las Vegas-area mail-in ballots, as the president and his supporters continue to question the validity of the votes.
Judge James Wilson in Carson City declined to issue an immediate order to stop the count.
Trump for President Nevada co-chairman Adam Laxalt said, “There has been great concern whether the rolls are clean and properly registered voters are the ones receiving ballots, signing them and mailing them back. All we want is to be part of the signature verification process and the ability to challenge a mail-in signature.”
The lawsuit claims there is an absence of “meaningful observation” of signature-checking.
Former Nevada attorney general, Adam Laxalt, said the small margin of votes that have been rejected this year also seems suspicious, even though data collected from 2016 shows similar rates of rejected ballots.
Laxalt added, “It’s hard to believe there’s only a 1% rejection rate.”
In 2016, Nevada counties reported that 1.6% of absentee ballots returned were rejected, according to data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. About 1% of absentee ballots cast were rejected that year.
From Fox News:
A lawsuit filed in state court less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 election claims that observers haven’t been allowed close enough to workers and machines at vote-counting centers to assess processing.
Republicans also have taken issue with the process by which absentee ballots are being collected across different states.
State Democrats called the lawsuit a “plain and simple” effort to suppress votes in the state’s most diverse county. The U.S. Census puts the Clark County population at more than 31% Hispanic, 13% Black and about 10% Asian American.
“Throughout this election, Trump and Republicans have resorted to baseless attacks to undermine confidence in Nevada’s election integrity,” the Democratic Party statement said.
