Nevada's Secretary of State, Barbara Cegavske (R), is Limiting In-Person Voting to as few as One fully Staffed Polling Site in Each of the State's 17th County-Level Jurisdictions.
The State Democratic Party and Three Democratic Campaign Organizations went to Court Thursday, alleging Illegal Inequities in the Rules Cegavske has created for the Primary, which she's Delayed to June 9th and decided will be Conducted almost entirely by Mail because of the Coronavirus.
The Suit asks a State Trial Judge to Mandate:
- Many more In-Person Voting Sites.
- The Delivery of Mail Ballots to Inactive Voters. Cegavske plans to Mail Ballots only to People who Voted in 2016 and 2018, but this would Disenfranchise more than 50,000 People.
The Suit Asked for the Suspension of Several Nevada Election Laws, among them:
- Provisions for Strictly Matching Signatures on Ballots to those On-File.
- Prohibition on having Non-Family-Members Collect and Deliver Absentee Ballots, called Ballot Harvesting.
The Suit argues that, without those Changes, too many Voters Picking Nominees for Congress, the State Legislature, and Judgeships, will face the same grim Choice between Civic Responsibility and Safeguarding Health that Confronted Wisconsinites last week.
"Reducing in-person voting locations to just one location per county moves Nevada in the wrong direction and guarantees a repeat of Wisconsin's mistakes," Attorneys wrote in the Complaint. "It will force many Nevadans to crowd into a single polling location, waiting in line for hours, risking their health and the health of their families in order to exercise their right to vote."
The Suit notes that in the Two Counties that are Home to 87% of the State's Population, those Centered on Las Vegas and Reno, Voters will have just One Location for Same-Day Voter Registration, which is taking effect for the First Time this year.
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