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CARSON CITY – An appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that challenged Clark County’s signature verification and election observer processes was dismissed Tuesday at the behest of campaign lawyers.
The dismissal comes after the Trump campaign and Clark County reached an agreement last week that allowed “the public to have additional observational access to duplicate ballots” at one of the processing facilities of the county ballots, according to documents filed in the case. The stipulation was accepted by Republicans Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske and Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria on November 4, with one small change made and accepted the following day.
The appeal was originally filed by the Trump campaign and Nevada Republicans seeking to overturn the decision of Carson City Judge James Wilson who dismissed their challenge to how Clark County checked signatures and its process for allowing observers entering county election buildings.
The lawsuit asked the court to force Clark County to change the way it counts and verifies mail-in ballots to allow for a more in-depth examination of the process through all of its stages. He claimed that the county’s process created a risk of voter fraud which effectively diluted the votes on their side.
The case included a one-day hearing last week. Wilson found no basis for the plaintiffs’ claims, ruling that there was no evidence of flawed procedure, inaccurate counting or wrongdoing on the part of election workers.
The Supreme Court also rejected the Republicans’ request to suspend the county verification process, writing in an order that Republicans did not identify any legal obligations that Cegavske or Gloria ignored, and that they did not respond to the lower court finding that they were missing standing for relief.
Contact the Head of the Capital Office, Colton Lochhead, at [email protected]. To follow @ColtonLochhead on Twitter.
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