Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) and the Nevada GOP have sued the Nevada Secretary of State, accusing the state’s high elections official of undermining voter confidence by failing to comply with federal legislation on the correct upkeep of voter rolls.
The RNC filed its complaint on March 19 on the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Nevada, accusing Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar of failing to maintain voter rolls correct, in violation of the Nationwide Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
“Election integrity begins with clear voter rolls, and that’s why the Nationwide Voter Registration Act requires state officers to maintain their rolls correct and up-to-date,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley mentioned in an announcement.
‘Simpler to Vote and Tougher to Cheat’
The NVRA requires that states keep correct and present voter registration rolls for federal elections. However the RNC mentioned in its grievance {that a} half dozen Nevada counties have implausible voter registration charges.
“No less than three Nevada counties have extra registered voters than they’ve grownup residents who’re over the age of 18,” the grievance reads. “That variety of voters is impossibly excessive.”
The three Nevada counties in query are Douglas (104 p.c), Lyon (105 p.c), and Storey (113 p.c).
One other two Nevada counties have voter registration charges in extra of 90 p.c of grownup residents over the age of 18: Carson Metropolis (92 p.c) and Clark (91 p.c).
“That determine far eclipses the nationwide and statewide voter registration charge in latest elections,” the plaintiffs wrote within the grievance.
U.S. Census knowledge released in May 2023 reveals that the nationwide voter registration charge for the 2022 Congressional election was 69.1 p.c—the best for a midterm election since 2000.
Nevada’s statewide voter registration charges for the 2022 and the 2020 elections had been 65.1 p.c and 66.2 p.c of the voting-age citizen inhabitants, per the grievance.
Moreover, a number of Nevada counties have unusually excessive charges of inactive registrants: Elko (31 p.c), Eureka (23 p.c), Humboldt (26 p.c), Lincoln (25 p.c,), Mineral (30 p.c), Nye (31 p.c), Washoe (17 p.c), and White Pine (23 p.c).
Another counties have unusually low charges of removals from voter rolls, per the grievance.
“Securing clear voter rolls in Nevada is a important step in direction of making certain that it is going to be straightforward to vote and exhausting to cheat,” Mr. Whatley mentioned in an announcement.
The Nevada Secretary of State didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
‘Defending the Vote’
The Nevada lawsuit comes after a latest leadership shakeup on the RNC noticed Mr. Whatley turn into the chair and former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, take the submit of co-chair.
Each Mr. Whatley and Ms. Trump have mentioned publicly {that a} key focus of theirs shall be election integrity.
The most recent lawsuit marks the 81st case of election integrity litigation that the RNC has engaged in through the present election cycle.
The RNC recently filed an analogous lawsuit towards Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, accusing her of undermining public confidence in elections by failing to correctly keep voter rolls.
An evaluation by the RNC confirmed that 76 of Michigan’s 83 counties have inflated voter rolls, in violation of the NVRA. Amongst them, 53 counties have extra lively registered voters than voting-age U.S. residents.
“Jocelyn Benson has didn’t comply with the NVRA, leaving Michigan with inflated and inaccurate voter rolls forward of the 2024 election,” Mr. Whatley mentioned in an earlier assertion.
In an emailed assertion to The Epoch Instances, Ms. Benson denounced the lawsuit as “meritless.”
Ms. Benson added that greater than 700,000 voter registrations have been canceled since she took workplace and one other 520,000 have been slated for cancellation in 2025.
“Federal knowledge reveals Michigan is the fifth most lively state within the nation in eradicating the registrations of voters who’ve died,” she wrote.
“Let’s name this what it’s: a PR marketing campaign masquerading as a meritless lawsuit stuffed with baseless accusations that search to decrease folks’s religion within the safety of our elections,” Ms. Benson added.
Give attention to Election Integrity
Ronna McDaniel left her submit as RNC chair on March 8.
In her remaining speech as the top of the group, she said she believes Mr. Whatley shall be “phenomenal” within the function and, particularly, on a problem that President Trump “cares deeply about, which is election integrity.”
For his half, the previous president mentioned in mid-February that he’s satisfied that Mr. Whatley, who served as normal counsel for the North Carolina GOP along with being its chairman, shall be “dedicated to election integrity, which we should have to maintain fraud out of our election so it could possibly’t be stolen.”
The previous president maintains that he was cheated out of victory within the 2020 presidential election partially due to outright fraud and partially due to last-minute modifications to election guidelines that sharply expanded alternatives to forged mail-in ballots, whereas softening voter verification necessities.
Mr. Whatley said recently that the Republican get together would use all accessible instruments to assist President Trump to win the 2024 election, whereas additionally ramping up its deal with election integrity.
He mentioned in a latest memo that the RNC would bolster applications that concentrate on each in-person and absentee early voting, in addition to poll harvesting the place authorized.
Mr. Whatley mentioned that the varied initiatives aimed toward voter outreach and early voting shall be paired with sturdy election integrity efforts, together with mounting authorized challenges to voter identification and
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