The state’s failure to maintain fresh voter rolls is worse, according to the leader of a watchdog organization, which claimed last week that more than 100 people had voted in another state after Nevada’s system of immediately mailing a vote to everyone on the voter rolls.
The Citizen Outreach Foundation‘s president and CEO, Chuck Muth, stated to The Federalist,” The biggest issue is that they changed the law in 2021 so that every active vote is immediately mailed a poll. We need the cleanest possible voting files to protect against potential scam.”
Through the Pigpen Project, the Citizen Outreach Foundation, with its headquarters in Nevada, aims to maintain accuracy on the country’s voter rolls. By removing people from Silver State’s voter registration listings, the action assists local election officials in identifying those who no longer qualify.
Almost 4, 000 registrants are no longer eligible to be on Nevada’s voter rolls as a result of their legal challenges, according to a report released last week by Muth’s team, who released a report revealing they had filed legal challenges. Most of these problems (3, 116 ) were filed in Clark County, the country’s most populous region.
The Pigpen Project reportedly identified the allegedly illegal registrations using voter registration information from the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address collection and the secretary of state’s workplace in Nevada. Additionally, it compared these facts to “official voting registration information from 15 different states.”
The organization claims that with this information, at least 102 people have moved out of Nevada and “whose records indicate they’ve basically VOTED in their fresh state.” In the 2022 general election, a vote allegedly reportedly cast ballot in both Nevada and Texas. According to the review, The Pigpen Project has since filed a legal complaint against the vote earlier this year.” The Secretary of State is currently investigating this.
The business of Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on the reputation of that research.
According to the report, the provision of state law the Pigpen Project used to file the challenges , requires , Nevada election authorities to send a “registration confirmation postcard” to the challenged voter, at which point the voter is given 33 weeks to return the card or else their membership status will be moved from “active” to “inactive” . , According to Aguilar’s company, like postcards were just mailed to more than 150, 000 registrants asking them to confirm their “active” position.
The Pigpen Project contends that some officials “fulfill that need” by moving people from active to idle who receive their ballots by mail to all effective voters every other year. Federal law requires states to produce” a reasonable effort to remove the names of disqualified voters from the official lists of available voters.” This lack of due diligence, according to the group, “has allowed tens of thousands of’ moved’ voters, who are missed by the post office for various reasons, to remain on our voter rolls”.
]READ: Pigpen Project Puts Boots On The Ground To Expose Nevada’s Dirty Voter Rolls]
According to Ballotpedia, Nevada requires local clerks to send ballots to people listed on the state’s active voter registration list during each election cycle in addition to the majority of states. A 2021 election bill signed by the then-Democrat governor included that change. Steve Sisolak that expanded the state’s use of unsupervised mail-in voting.
Muth claimed that Nevada’s adoption of an all-mail voting system and its state’s historically transient voting system have made the process of cleaning its voter rolls “worse.”
” People move in and out of Nevada, especially in the Reno and Las Vegas areas, on a regular basis. So, this is an ongoing problem”, Muth said. Many states with stable populations do n’t face the same problems as we do here.
Numerous errors were discovered in the state’s voter rolls in a documentary produced by the Public Interest Legal Foundation ( PILF ) in May. As my colleague Matt Kittle reported, PILF’s Lauren Bis” showed up on a lot of doorsteps around Las Vegas …]and ] was greeted with a lot of quizzical looks from employees at the casinos, fast food restaurants, retailers, post offices, funeral homes, strip clubs, tattoo parlors, and jails where registered voters — at least according to Nevada’s dirty voter rolls — ‘ resided.'”
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard, which grades states and the District of Columbia on the strength of their election laws, ranks Nevada as having the second-worst election laws in the country.
Despite these challenges, Muth said he is “happy” about the progress his group is making on cleaning the Silver State’s voter rolls, citing cooperation from local election officials.
” The local officials in Clark County, where Las Vegas is ]and ] where most of our work has been done, have been extremely cooperative and helpful”, Muth said. They actually gave us instructions and explained the forms we needed to use, how to submit them, and who to send them to.
” I ca n’t complain about the local election officials, they’ve been absolutely great to work with”, he added.
The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
