Many liberals discuss vote dignity. Chuck Muth, leader of Nevada’s Citizen Outreach Foundation, is walking the move.  ,
Muth and staff launched the Pigpen Project last year, an initiative aimed at examining Nevada’s filthy voter rolls, using a sophisticated software system to assist local elections officials in carrying out their duties. Muth said fighting for listing repair is absolutely necessary for fair votes, even though there may be a cap on what election integrity whistleblowers can do in a state with a Democrat-controlled senate.  ,
The one thing we can do under current rules is work to clean up our “dirty” voter lists BEFORE the next vote, and this is non-partisan. Nothing is more significant or feasible, the long-time liberal advocate wrote in a post announcing the project’s launch in February 2023.  ,
In an effort to neutralize lots of archaic registrations on the voting record, The Pigpen Project has had some victory by working with elections officials in Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas and the most populated area of the Silver State. Election dignity success, of course, is a risk to the left, which has little attention in “protecting every available ballot and every available voter”. But, Democrat public relations sources, particularly The New York Times, have attacked the work.
‘ Poor Names ‘
The party draws a significant amount of inspiration from J. Christian Adams ‘ Public Interest Legal Foundation, which has been used to track down dirty voter rolls all over the nation, including jump state Nevada. As The Federalist has reported, PILF has uncovered — and confirmed — hundreds of “bad addresses”, or individuals who do n’t live at the commercial addresses they have listed as their residences. Fraudulent names range from ribbon clubs to remove malls. Those people, according to the charity’s studies, remain on Nevada’s voting rolls.
Because they privately checked each one, PILF investigators are aware that the lists are inaccurate.  ,
Similar to what Pigpen Project participants did when counting the number of people who are registered and have voted in another position on Nevada’s voter rolls, which is how many people are listed as engaged there.  ,
As of late next month, Muth told me, the Pigpen Project had submitted to local elections officials across the state more than 1, 000 active labels on Nevada’s voter rolls of individuals who have moved, registered, and voted in another state. According to Muth, those voters have been identified as having “declared they’ve moved permanently to another state” by sending a change of address to the U.S. Postal Service.  ,
According to its website, Muth’s group has submitted the names of another 768 people who allegedly had moved out of state and registered there but do n’t appear to have voted. According to their statistics, the majority of those “active” voters in Nevada came from Clark and Washoe counties, Democratic strongholds, and the state’s main population centers.  ,
“]T] hese voters should be removed from the Nevada voter rolls or, at least, be moved from’ active’ to ,’ inactive’ status – which would mean they would n’t be automatically mailed a ballot for the November election”, Muth wrote in a June 28 update.  ,
Overall, Muth claimed that the Clark County Election Department had distributed postcards to 600 people who had been confirmed by the Pigpen Project to no longer reside in Nevada. Another 117 remained to be processed by the agency. The elections office did not respond to a request for comment, and it is unclear how many of the 717 allegedly ineligible voters were inactivated. By the end of the month, Muth said his organization will have access to the updated voter list and will be able to check the status there.  ,
The local election office is required to send a notification to the address when it receives “reliable and reasonable” information regarding an ineligible voter. If a postcard comes back as undeliverable or the individual does n’t respond, the voter faces being moved from “active” to “inactive” on the list.  ,
Left-Wing Attack Machine
Muth claimed that a New York Times bestseller,” Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls,” contains inaccurate information about the Pigpen Project. The story, Muth said, erroneously reported that the project’s Eagle AI tracking software “uses a platform based on data from VoteRef.com“, which publishes voter information online. The Voter Reference Foundation is detested by the left, who claims that the group has “repeatedly pushed conspiracies about election fraud.” Interestingly, Russia-collusion hoax peddler Marc Elias ‘ Democracy Docket does n’t care for citizens investigating voter eligibility — or ineligibility, as the case may be.  ,
” VoteRef has also encouraged election vigilantism, and the platform can help to increase voter challenges, a legal, though deeply flawed, practice in many states that allows private citizens to challenge the voter eligibility of other voters”, the leftist website, part of a lawfare network created to help Democrats win at the polls, asserts.
Muth claimed that the Pigpen Project only employs NCOA ( National Change of Address ) data provided by a reputable vendor from the Postal Service.  , And the project draws from official voter registration data from 16 states and counting, he added.  ,
Fixing a Serious Problem
In addition, The Times reported that Muth and another conservative activist Dan Burdish “enlisted landlords to compare voter rolls with their leading records” as part of their door-to-door canvassing efforts. Muth said the Pigpen Project did n’t “enlist” landlords. The election integrity activist claimed in a recent column that some landlords learned about the project and contacted the organizers to debunk the Times hit piece.  ,
They asked if we could assist them in preventing ballots from piling up in their mail rooms for those who no longer reside there, according to Muth. This is a legitimate issue and issue that we are attempting to resolve. He noted that he and one apartment owner met with election officials in Clark County to come up with a” solution within the requirements and constraints of election law.”
” Nevertheless, how is that something nefarious”? Muth asked. How does it make sense to send a registered voter a ballot that they wo n’t receive, or worse, could be picked up by someone other than the voter if the registered voter no longer lives where they are registered to vote?
In states like swing state Nevada, where all registered voters receive a vote-by-mail ballot, including those who are no longer on the voter rolls, the issue is made even more problematic.  ,
Stephanie Wheatley, a spokeswoman for Clark County, told the Times that Pigpen Project officials provided enough evidence” for the election department to do research and investigate” . ,
Despite what appears to be reliable data, Muth claimed that some election officials have fought back in an effort to uphold the status quo. A representative from Washoe County informed Elias ‘ Democracy Docket that” third-party efforts to remove voters do not follow” legal rules to challenge a voter’s residency and eligibility.
According to Democracy Docket, a voter’s responsibility is to update their registration by notifying our office, and without their consent, extensive steps must be taken in accordance with the law before we can alter anything that would affect their ability to vote, according to a spokeswoman for Washoe County, Bethany Drysdale, in an email statement.
But Washoe County, home to Reno, Nevada’s second largest city, has had some trouble moving on cleaning up its dirty voter rolls. In a petition for mandamus filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation earlier this year, Washoe County was ordered to investigate and remove illegal business addresses from its voter list.  ,
Making the Case
By the beginning of this month, Muth and his fellow election integrity advocates were optimistic that local elections officials would have finished their investigations. In the months leading up to November’s election, eligibility challenges are made more difficult by the election law in Nevada.
The effort to combat Nevada’s dirty voter rolls started out relatively small by design. The Citizen Outreach Foundation is just one election integrity organization with limited resources, despite the fact that there are tens of thousands more suspect names on the registration list. The Pigpen Project’s ultimate goal is to demonstrate through thorough data analysis and ground-based verification that there is a problem with the Silver State’s voter roll maintenance and that it requires much more consideration.  ,
The secretary of state has advised that all county clerks and registrars only accept information that is reputable and reasonable, according to Muth,” to] work with an outside entity like us.” The information we’re providing to the local volunteers who are traveling door to door is really helpful in strengthening our case. So if the Left claims we’re partisan or whacky conspiracy theorists, we’ve gone door to door to make sure our information is reliable” . ,
The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
