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President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a lawsuit after state authorities took action to make sure Nevada voters could participate in the 2020 election despite the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the president’s reelection campaign, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s new law is unlawful and impractical. However, some argue that the Trump lawsuit is nonsensical and fails to pass legal muster.
Sisolak signed AB4 into law this week in order to allow Nevada voters to receive a ballot in the mail automatically if they are registered voters. Additional benefits are provided by the law, including requirements that a minimum number of in-person polling places must be provided for both early voting and day of voting for the 2020 election.
After hearing of the new law for Nevada voters, Trump took to Twitter to express his displeasure, CBS News reported. According to Trump, Sisolak is “using Covid to steal the state.”
“In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state,” the president tweeted. “See you in Court!”
Before Sisolak signed the law, Trump had threatened to sue the state if it signed the bill into law. Now, the president has followed through on his threats in a lawsuit against Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske.
According to the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign, the GOP and other Republican groups, the new state law is unconstitutional and will make it easier for voter fraud to run rampant in the election.
However, Cegavske reportedly testified at a recent state assembly that the June primary elections – which were conducted primarily via mail – did not have a single instance of voter fraud.
Additionally, the lawsuit takes issue with two of the primary provisions of the Nevada voters law: the allowance for late-arriving ballots to be counted and the requirement for a higher minimum number of polling stations in high-population counties.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) notes that many changes are major and, with the 2020 election quickly approaching, the party will have to divert significant resources and money to educate Nevada voters about the changes.
“Many of AB4’s provisions are head-scratching — particularly given the stark irregularities in Nevada’s June 2020 primary election, and because AB4 changes so many election laws so close to the 2020 general election,” the presidential lawsuit alleges.
Although the president claims the AB4 law is unlawful, Vox contends his lawsuit may be motivated by Trump’s personal interests.
According to an Emerson College poll, Biden supporters prefer to vote by mail while Trump supporters prefer to vote in-person.
Specifically, the poll says that 76% of those who prefer to vote by mail plan to vote for Biden, while 65% of those who prefer to vote in-person plan to vote for Trump. By blocking Nevada voters from casting their vote through the mail, Trump may succeed in chipping away his opponent’s voting base.
Regardless of the president’s motivations, Trump’s lawsuit reportedly suffers from several flaws and may not pass legal muster.
For example, Trump rings several claims relying upon federal laws and regulations. However, these statutes likely cannot be enforced when a lawsuit is brought forth by a private party such as the Trump campaign.
Nevada leadership has responded to the lawsuit, calling it a “sham” and criticizing Trump’s lack of leadership ahead of the 2020 election.
“As states fill the void of Trump’s leadership and begin to step up to the challenge of protecting both voters’ health and their constitutional right to vote, Trump and Republicans are throwing a fit. That is because Trump does not want to hear from the people, he knows what they will say,” Nevada State Democratic Party chairman William McCurdy said in a statement, according to CNN.
Several other states have plans to transition their voters to mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election. Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Vermont, California and the District of Columbia all join Nevada in the switch to mail-in ballots.
Do you think the new law for Nevada voters is fair? Do you think it will affect the integrity of the 2020 election? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
The Trump campaign and other plaintiffs are represented by Donald J. Campbell and J. Colby Williams of Campbell & Williams, along with William S. Consovoy, Thomas R. McCarthy, Tyler R. Green and Cameron T. Norris of Consovoy McCarthy PLLC.
The Trump Nevada Voters 2020 Election Lawsuit is Donald J. Trump for President Inc., et al. v. Barbara Cegavske, Case No. 2:20-cv-01445-KJD-VCF, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
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42 thoughts onTrump Sues Nevada Over Mail-In Ballots
In the Army, we were not given any option to vote while I was in basic training 2020. None of us who went through AIT with me voted. That’s hundreds of soldiers. We were not even informed of any mail-in ballot until I got home in December. I’m sure we weren’t the only ones. A lot of us got covid also and were sent to this place like a concentration camp where mail wasn’t ever even a thing.
add me
Absentee ballots aren’t the same as mail in ballots do the research
when the shoe is on the other foot it is cheating.Donald Trash been cheating all his life is he a winner.
That is the President of the United States please show some respect
POTUS for a few more months. Time to change those curtains to Winning Blue and burn those Whining Red ones. Biden 2020. RESPECT THAT. Mic Drop
I live in Jersey and so far for this primary alone there were four officials charged with voter fraud over the ballots and some weren’t even delivered to be counted. If this isn’t voter suppression I don’t know what is. We can stand in those lines at the DMV that wrap around the building and where people were literally camping out overnight to get a better spot in line. No to vote by ballots and this is coming from a disabled person’s perspective.
Lord pleases intervene.
So Republicans couldn’t use the same system to cheat? You come across as being ignorant.
There is a major bit of bad information in this article. “Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Vermont, California and the District of Columbia all join Nevada in the switch to mail-in ballots” is incorrect and misleading. It reads as if those states are also switching to mail-in ballots. In reality, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Utah and Colorado ALREADY have, and have been using, an automatic mail-in ballot system. So they are not “joining Nevada in the switch”. More accurately, Nevada is joining THEM, in an already established system. They are not “switching” to anything. The article should be edited to reflect this.
There were photos taken in Las Vegas, showing piles of ballots on the floor in front of group mail boxes at apartment buildings. Apparently they were for people who use to live in that apartment complex, but had since moved to another location. So, if anyone picked up a ballot and filled it out, who would know ? Could this have happened ?
Signatures are on file with election offices, and ballots must be signed with a matching signature to be counted. It would be difficult for one person to pick up any number of ballots from anywhere and fill them out how they see fit. If said person had access to what people’s signatures look like and attempted to forge them, I would think you have much worse things to consider than issues with faked mail-in ballots. Said person with access to signatures, would be much more likely to be able to pull-off a far more nefarious means of voter fraud than fake ballots…
No one really checks signatures. Takes too long. Banks dont even do that any more.
I was missing a signature on the ballot outside envelope and they sent it back!!! They are not banks; this is our Constitutional election process!!!
F**K T-RUMP…..WORST POS President EVER!!!
You are a LOSER!
Any relation to Ann Coulter?
Amen
Gerry Rig is that you?
yes