The Democratic Elections Commission in Nevada is reportedly looking into allegations that there may be plenty of illegal votes cast in the country’s 2024 votes, The Federalist learned.
The Nevada-based Citizen Outreach Foundation ( COF ) began submitting election integrity violation reports ( EIVR ) to the Democratic Secretary of State last month. Citizens can use these official complaints to report alleged violations of state election laws, according to the site of the Nevada secretary of state. They “must specify the alleged violation of law and identify the group responsible for the contravention, as well as set forth dates and times of certain episodes, if feasible.”
An “appropriate remedy shall be provided to the extent permitted by law” is stated in the secretary’s office’s statement that” a violation has, in fact, occurred. The elections chief has the option of “may dismiss the complaint or refer it to the proper agency for resolution” with the complainant being informed of any steps that are taken if he determines that the EIVR does not allege a violation of election law.
Chuck Muth, COF President, reported to The Federalist that his organization has submitted more than 500 EIVRs to Aguilar’s office in the past month in the November 2024 election contest. The group claims to have found that these ballots were returned from addresses the affiliated registrants no longer reside at by comparing voter registration records, the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address database, and the state’s 2024 election records.
According to Ballotpedia, unlike most states, Nevada requires local clerks to send a ballot to those listed on the state’s active voter registration list during each election cycle.
In the months leading up to the 2024 general election, COF submitted roughly 33, 000 complaints to Nevada’s voter rolls alleging that they no longer reside at the address listed on their registration file. Aguilar’s office issued a memo in August 2024 effectively instructing local clerks to stop processing challenges brought by COF under a particular provision of state law, which frequently stymied the organization’s efforts to work with election officials to remove these allegedly unlawful registrants prior to the November contest.
The secretary’s office claimed that COF lacked “personal knowledge” of the contested registrant’s eligibility, which they claimed was required under the group’s use of the terms to make the challenges. This was done despite the fact that COF’s deputy secretary of elections, Mark Wlaschin, acknowledged in the memo that “personal knowledge” is not expressly defined under the COF’s request to file its challenges.
Potrivit to Muth, 881 of the 33, 000 allegedly illegal registrants COF registered with before the November election have been identified as voting in the election.
( See COF’s report on integrity violations with Aguilar’s office for an example )
The Citizen Outreach Foundation is once more facing opposition from Aguilar despite its efforts to limit the number of lawful votes cast in the 2024 election. On Tuesday, the Democrat Elections Commission informed its members that” no further action will be taken” in response to a number of EIVRs it has already submitted.
Aguilar cited existing laws governing residency challenges as evidenced by COF’s claim that it is claiming “residency challenges involving numerous voters in the State of Nevada.” He cited the NVRA, which, according to him, “limits a state’s ability to conduct general programs and activities without removing voters whose residence may have changed.”
The SOS cannot be certain that apparent challenges submitted through the EIVR process meet the standards of uniformity and non-discrimination, according to Aguilar. In consequence, the SOS will not be taking action against EIVRs that show, based on third-party data and not personal knowledge, that a voter may have changed of address.
Muth objected to the secretary’s classification of its EIVRs as “residency challenges” in a conversation with The Federalist and refuted the notion that the “personal knowledge” requirement governing citizen-led voter roll challenges applies to EIVRs.
He’s trying to say that a report on election integrity violations is the same as a challenge, and they’re completely different, according to Muth. Nothing in law or code requires having personal knowledge to submit a report on election violations.
The secretary of state’s website‘s EIVR form does not list a “personal knowledge” requirement for those who file such a complaint.
The COF president also refrained from citing Aguilar’s reference to the NVRA and claimed that he couldn’t verify that the organization’s EIVRs were in accordance with federal law’s “uniform” and “nondiscriminatory” requirements. The party registrations for the 881 contested votes are: 321 Democrats, 294 Republicans, 222 non-partisans, 29 independent Americans, 7 libertarians, and 8 “others,” according to COF data analyst Dan Burdish.
Aguilar would only have to check whether he had a point if we were only filing reports on Democrats. But Republicans and Democrats both filed almost exactly the same number of reports, according to Muth. They are simply looking for justifications not to do their jobs beyond the bare minimum to clean up the voter rolls.
Muth concluded his remarks by saying that Nevadans “can’t” and” shouldn’t” have confidence in their state’s ability to conduct transparent and clean elections” as long as the secretary of state blocks efforts to clean the voter rolls” and does the “bare minimum” to abide by the NVRA.
There is no reason, according to Muth, for anyone in Nevada to believe that our elections are secure and secure.
The COF president made it known that the organization is looking into possible legal options to force Aguilar to comply with its EIVRs.
The Federalist contacted Secretary Aguilar’s office for comment, but they did not respond.
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Shawn Fleetwood is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously worked for Convention of States Action as a state content writer, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Conservative Review, RealClearPolitics, and RealClear Health. Follow him on Twitter at @ShawnFleetwood
