The most powerful voices in Republican politics are seeking to prevent Nevada from accepting mail-in ballots received up to four business days after Election Day.
On May 3, the Republican National Committee, Donald J. Trump For President 2024 Inc., and Donald Szymanski filed a three-count complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, and other parties, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.
The complaint identifies Mr. Szymanski as a registered Nevada voter and a resident of Clark County, Nevada.
The RNC, President Trump’s principal campaign committee, and Mr. Szymanski are seeking a judgment declaring Nevada’s mail-in voting law violates the 14th Amendment, injunctions prohibiting the state from counting ballots received after Election Day or, alternatively, postmarked after Election Day, and recovery of legal fees related to the case.
The complaint alleges Nevada contravenes federal law by counting ballots up to four business days after Election Day. Furthermore it incorrectly, according to the complaint, presumes ballots received up to three days after the election are postmarked on or before the day of the election.
“[The state] effectively extends Nevada’s federal election past the Election Day established by Congress,” the complaint says. “Timely, valid ballots are diluted by untimely, invalid ballots, which violates the rights of candidates, campaigns, and voters.”
In a statement provided to The Epoch Times by the Nevada Secretary of State’s office, Mr. Aguilar said his state runes some of the most secure, transparent, and accessible elections in the country.
“The key for that accessibility is allowing working Nevadans to vote using the method that works best for them, including voting by mail,” Mr. Aguilar said. “Our office will not comment on ongoing litigation, but I hope the RNC is putting as much time and energy into educating voters on how to participate in elections as they put into suing the state of Nevada.”
Nevada, a state with a growing population and shifting demographic makeup, is a coveted battleground state in national politics.
In November, along with assigning six votes in the Electoral College, Silver State voters will decide whether Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) will serve another term in the upper chamber. The vote will be critical to the balance of power in Washington.
In a statement, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said Nevada’s law undermines the integrity of the state’s election.
“Ballots received days after Election Day should not be counted,” Mr. Whatley said in a release. “The RNC and our partners are suing to secure an honest election, support Nevada voters, and oppose unlawful schemes.”
A release from the RNC said this is the party committee’s 83 active election integrity suit. It is pursuing similar litigation in 25 states.
The RNC, which is now operating in concert with the Trump campaign, is promising to prioritize election integrity ahead of the November vote. On April 19, it announced plans to field more than 100,000 election integrity workers on Election Day and beyond.
The RNC and Trump campaign complaint said a similar suit was filed, and ultimately dismissed, in 2020 that challenged an earlier law on mail-in ballots.
In 2021, the complaint said, Nevada’s state legislature enacted a new law governing mail-in ballots. Along with reducing the competitiveness of elections, the complaint says, Nevada’s law forces the diversion of resources to conduct election activities even after election day.
The complaint is directed against various local election officials and county officials in Washoe County, Nevada, and Clark County, Nevada. Mr. Aguilar, a Democrat, is the main defendant. He was elected in 2022 after beating out Republican candidate Jim Marchant.
There is a partisan angle to the mail-in ballot issue, too. In the 2022 national election, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Election Lab data cited in the complaint, 46 percent of all Democrat voters mailed in a ballot, while only 27 percent of Republicans did.
In Nevada, the division is broader. The complaint cites statistics collected by the Nevada Secretary of State’s office showing about 60 percent of Democrat voters cast a ballot through the mail in 2020. In comparison, only about 37 percent of Republicans did the same. Similar trends were observed in the 2022 election and the state’s 2024 Presidential Preference Primary.
The complaint also alleges that last-minute votes exceedingly skew Democrat because the party tends to maximize its get-out-the-vote efforts in the final days of the campaign. It goes on to say Democrat ballots are more likely to be rejected because they are not filled out correctly.
“Counting mail ballots received after Election Day doesn’t just dilute the valid ballots—it specifically and disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters,” the complaint says. “These harms are irreparable.”
The complaint is signed by Alicia Ashcraft, a partner at Ashcraft & Barr LLP of Las Vegas. Ms. Ashcraft is representing all three plaintiffs. Additionally, the complaint said various members of Dhillion Law Group Inc. are serving as counsel for Donald J. Trump For President 2024 Inc.
Representatives of the Nevada Republican Party and the Nevada State Democratic Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times.
According to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office, President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump in Nevada by about 33,500 votes in 2020. About 1.4 million ballots were cast in that race.
Counting ballots received after Election Day or, alternatively, postmarked after Election Day, is just the enablement of being able to count the real honest votes cast up to election day, then knowing how many to falsify and invent to overcome the honest cast votes of THE PEOPLE. All who defy the rule of requiring a valid voter identification are co-conspirators in overthrowing the will of WE THE PEOPLE. Treat them like the treacherous treasonous traitors to America as they are. When caught in the act of stealing votes brand the word “Traitor” on to their foreheads to prevent them from ever engaging politics or in any form of democracy destruction acts in the future. Just what fool would ever hire a backstabbing traitor, into private industry or into government. You shoot foxes when found inside hen houses, you don’t just sit and watch them steal your food nor your votes, nor your government. You cannot cheat or steal in a Vegas Casino because the cameras will catch you and the made men will give you a pair of cement overshoes to sleep with the fishes. So, why can people look the other way in Nevada when their votes are purloined? Former Casino owning Trump understands how it works, why not the Democrats?
THIS IS Why i have long been against ‘mail in voting’. EVEN ABSENTEE voting, just given to ANYONE and everyone who asks..
IF i had my way, they’d only get absentee ballots if DISABLED.. Millitary should vote ON THE BASE THEY ARE STATIONED at, rather than ‘absentee to their home state’, as we’ve seen MANY ISSUES with that before.
Voter fraud enabled by the communist politicians at the state and Federal level! Where is the FBI? Oh I forgot, the FBI is complicit in the voter fraud that takes place, because they do nothing!!!
Trusting the FBI TO do the ‘right thing’, is like asking a hungry lion to NOT EAT YOU…
Isn’t it interesting that the majority of post election day ballots always seem to be for Democrat candidates?
No, it isn’t, it is inevitable.
How anyone one can be surprised when whole boxes of ballots are suddenly discovered, many of them otherwise pristine and unfolded, and are simply lumped in with the rest of the valid ballots.
There was plenty of suspicious evidence concerning the Democrat win in 2020, and blatant illegal maneuvering by Democrat officials passing last minute changes to voting laws timed to where there was no time to challenge them. Plenty of evidence that was not even considered to be investigated or looked at by a court of law. And the few that were looked at were not defeated after a full trial, but were ultimately dismissed summarily.
And this year, the Dems are panicked because they know they are under stronger scrutiny and will be harder pressed to scheme their way to another illegal victory.
But you can bet, as evident in this news release, they are ever vigilant, scheming away so that they can complete their mission to disassemble and mothball the Constitution and replace it with a one party third world dictatorship with them at the reigns, and the Republican party in their shadow until it is outlawed completely. They’ve said this publically.
A bleak future unless We prevail and stop them here and now.
I wouldn’t call it “interesting”, BUT PLANNED!
I’m missing something. Don’t see why voting can’t be done early or later. Say 2 weeks before election until 2 weeks after election day. Mail in ballots 60 days before election.
We see problem after problem as is, with counting going LONG AFTER VOTING DAY..
Why extend that even MORE< unless your goal is to GIVE THE DEMS yet another method to cheat the system with?
Tell us again how they will identify every voter that is voting to be a CITIZEN? Also need to stop mailing those 100 ballots out to the corner gas stations, or to that single family home. There is NO, NONE, valid reason not to demand voter ID’s when voting.