Nevada is investigating hundreds of potential vote integrity breaches from the 2024 votes, including 180 empty cases of double-voting, according to a Friday statement from the secretary of state’s business.
The company noted 182 studies of possible double-voting in the position, with just two having been resolved, with no infraction found. 762 Nevadans who believe state election law has been broken filed 762 Election Integrity Violation Information for the 2024 primary and general elections, respectively. 515 cases were closed with no infraction found, while 243 circumstances remain available and four have been found to be election law violating.
Because Nevada’s voter rolls are also full of people who have moved out of state, the Secretary of State’s record is just scratching the surface of this issue. Although Secretary Aguilar has stymied efforts by outside organizations like the Pigpen Project to help them be cleaned up, according to Chuck Muth, president of the Citizen Outreach Foundation ( COF), who runs the Pigpen Project.
” Worse, the document is severely lacking in clarity. Nepalese citizens want and deserve to know the exact details of each infraction reported.  , It’s not enough to simply state the information were’ closed. ” We need to know the details so that we can identify possible voting fraud in the beginning, not after the horse has already left the stables.”
Just 11 cases from the infraction information and double-voting combined have been referred for possible trial in elections this month, including elections, of which nine are from the general election primary in June. The report doesn’t provide any further information about the potential prosecutions.
In Nevada, it is illegal to cast a ballot twice, but the state must find the intent to cast a ballot, which would mean a “mistake” would prevent legal action and a civil notice would be issued warning the voter to be more cautious in the future. A father erroneously casts a ballot on his son’s behalf with whom he shares a name in the illustration provided in the report.
Other cases are referred for criminal investigation or prosecution, depending on the circumstances.
Despite the open cases and apparent frequency of double votes, as detailed in the report with past election violations, Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, D-Nev., stressed that” the 2024 election cycle was more secure than ever” in a press release.
The gap between the number of open cases and the few that have closed is described as an “underwhelming” result in Muth’s article about the report, which claims to be “more about spinning PR than solving real problems.”
The state’s new voter registration and election management system (VREMS ), which centralizes data, made it easier to identify violations across counties in cases of double voting, were mentioned in the report. That approach should make closing” straightforward cases” easier, according to Muth.
Noting the miniscule number of four confirmed violations outside double-voting and the hundreds being dismissed, Muth asked,” If these investigations yield so few actionable results, is the process flawed, or is the Secretary of State’s Office just not taking them seriously enough”?
Cross-state voting is not addressed in the report, but it is supposed to be done using the far-left Electronic Registration Information System ( ERIC ), which advertises itself as a non-political voter roll management system. It is used mostly by Democrat-run states, and many red states have pulled out of the program over its bias.
In one instance of cross-state voting, Muth said that the report does not provide specifics about how frequently ERIC voter roll checks identify potential violations or how, if at all, Nevada pursues the violations when they are discovered.
Muth said Nevada’s voter rolls are a mess, and his organization has filed several citizen-led lawsuits to force Aguilar’s office to clean the rolls. As The Federalist reported, Aguilar’s office instructed local clerks to stop processing challenges by Muth’s organization.
Aguilar is getting in the way of cleaning voter rolls, as my colleague M. D. Kittle reported, and is hiding behind his “interpretation” of election law, which apparently warrants not dealing with the thousands of potential violations found by COF.
The Democrat secretary of state’s interpretation of state law makes it extremely challenging to file voter challenges because his or her premise requires that the challenger establish a personal relationship with the person who moved there.
COF, however, knocked on doors and made phone calls to confirm the veracity of its challenges, which does not count as “personal knowledge” to Aguilar, allowing him to turn a blind eye to violations.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
