Suit: NV Elections Chief Is Hiding Records On Alleged Illegal Voter
In a recent lawsuit filed by Chuck Muth,the state’s Democrat elections chief,Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar,is accused of unlawfully withholding records related to an alleged illegal voter,Charles Spillers,who purportedly voted in both Texas and Nevada during the 2022 elections. Muth, who leads the citizen Outreach Foundation aimed at cleaning up voter rolls, reported that he initially filed an Election Integrity Violations Report in March 2024. Though, after multiple requests for documentation regarding the subsequent examination, he claims to have faced critically important delays and insufficient responses from Aguilar’s office.
Despite Nevada law requiring a timely response to public records requests, Muth asserts that Aguilar’s office failed to comply, providing only minimal and heavily redacted information by March 2025. Muth’s lawsuit seeks an injunction to compel the release of the requested records and claims that Aguilar’s actions constitute a willful violation of state law. In response, aguilar’s office has stated a commitment to clarity and will defend its actions in court.
Nevada’s Democrat elections chief is unlawfully denying the release of records related to an alleged illegal voter, a lawsuit filed on Friday alleges.
Brought by state resident Chuck Muth, the legal challenge claims that Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is refusing to forfeit requested documents related to an individual (Charles Spillers) who purportedly voted in Texas’ and Nevada’s 2022 elections. Muth is the president of the Nevada-based Citizen Outreach Foundation, which aims to clean up the state’s voter rolls via its Pigpen Project.
According to the suit, the entire saga began in late March 2024, when Muth filed an Election Integrity Violations Report (EIVR) with Aguilar’s office over Spillers’ allegedly unlawful voting in the 2022 midterms. Muth claimed that he was informed by investigator Darrell Harris that he had been “assigned to the case” on April 1, 2024. An alleged member of Aguilar’s office conducted a phone interview with Spillers on May 14, 2024, according to Muth.
The plaintiff went on to contend that he received correspondence from Aguilar’s team several weeks later on June 6, 2024, at which point he was informed that the secretary “is aware of this matter and is taking appropriate steps to address this matter” and that the file had been closed. After allegedly not receiving any further information on the EIVR from Aguilar’s office for several months — including after a purported August encounter with the secretary — Muth filed an open records request on Nov. 24, 2024, seeking to obtain “any and all documents related to this investigation, including current status.”
While government entities are required by Nevada law to respond to public records requests by “the end of the fifth business day,” Muth claimed that Aguilar’s office did not do so until Dec. 5, 2024, at which point the Democrat official purportedly said his team “needed additional time” to produce the requested documents. After another alleged request to delay production of the records the following month, the secretary purportedly gave Muth “records that consisted of nothing more than the vote histories of Spillers and another Nevada voter registered at his old address” on March 13, 2025.
“The SOS did note, that ‘records have been withheld and redacted based on attorney-client privilege and personal privacy interest.’ The response did not indicate what documents exist or what information on any documents was subject to the asserted requirement that they be withheld,” the lawsuit reads. “There was just the blanket refusal to provide any documents.”
This prompted Muth to send a follow-up request on March 22 challenging Aguilar’s claim about the confidentiality of the sought records and again asking that they be produced. The secretary’s office allegedly responded on March 31, at which point it informed Muth “it was conducting a ‘search and review’ of records in the SOS custody to determine if any records exist” and noted such a request would be fulfilled by May 2.
After weeks of purported delays, Muth contended that although Aguilar’s office “finally” responded to his request on June 6, the forfeited documents do not completely fulfill his request.
“While the SOS provided some additional documents, including the transcript of a May 14, 2024, interview with Spillers,” Muth argued, “the SOS’s response is deficient in several ways as the SOS continues to withhold various documents and has improperly redacted information related to [my] request.”
“Further, the SOS admits that it has received ‘information from [the Electronic Registration Information Center] ERIC regarding this matter, a criminal investigation was initiated, and in May 2024, the SOS Office had referred the case to the Nevada Attorney General’s Office for potential prosecution. In June 2024, the Secretary of State’s Office was informed the Attorney General’s Office declined prosecution,” the lawsuit reads.
Muth asked the First District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Carson City to provide “injunctive relief” by ordering Aguilar to forfeit the records he requested, and to issue an order “finding that the SOS acted in willful violation of [state law] and requiring the SOS to pay the mandated civil penalties for each and every violation.”
In response to Muth’s lawsuit, Aguilar’s office told The Federalist that it “is committed to transparency and adherence to the law, and looks forward to defending those principles in court.”
“The Office will have no further comment on ongoing litigation,” it added.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of 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, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
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