{"id":2290970,"date":"2024-07-09T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pigpen-project-works-to-expose-clean-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:10:06","slug":"pigpen-project-works-to-expose-clean-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pigpen-project-works-to-expose-clean-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigpen Project Works To Expose, Clean Nevada&#8217;s Dirty Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpigpen-project-works-to-expose-clean-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2290970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Many conservatives talk about election integrity, but Chuck Muth, president\u200c of Nevada&#8217;s Citizen Outreach Foundation, is \u2063taking action. Last year, Muth and his team launched the Pigpen Project, which aims to clean up\u2062 Nevada&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-state-lawmakers-to-introduce-new-bills-to-limit-vote-by-mail-require-photo-id-to-vote-clean-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"Republican State Lawmakers to Introduce New Bills to Limit Vote-by-Mail, Require Photo ID to Vote, Clean Dirty Voter Rolls\">dirty voter rolls<\/a> using advanced \u200dsoftware. Despite challenges in a mostly mail-in ballot state with a Democrat-controlled \u200dlegislature, Muth believes that \u2063maintaining accurate\u200c voter lists is crucial for \u2062fair \u2064elections. The Pigpen Project has already\u2063 made progress \u2062with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-our-vote-matters-is-suing-facebook-dominion-mark-zuckerberg-certain-state-officials-others-for-infringing-upon-right-to-vote-assemble-and-speak-freely-you-can-jo\/\" title=\"Group \u201cOur Vote Matters\u201d Is Suing Facebook, Dominion, Mark Zuckerberg, Certain State Officials, Others for Infringing Upon Right to Vote, Assemble and Speak Freely \u2013 You Can Join Too\">local election officials<\/a> in Clark\u2063 County, the most populated region of Nevada, inactivating outdated registrations and identifying individuals registered and voting in multiple states. While \u200cthe project has faced\u200b criticism from left-leaning\u200c sources\u200d like The New\u2064 York Times, Muth remains focused on ensuring election integrity by removing \u2063ineligible voters from the rolls. The project uses \u200dNCOA data from the Postal Service and official voter registration \u200bdata from multiple states, highlighting the need for accurate voter information. Despite resistance from some election officials, the Pigpen Project continues its efforts to address this serious problem and improve the integrity of Nevada&#8217;s\u200d elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A lot of conservatives talk about election integrity. <a href=\"https:\/\/chuckmuth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chuck Muth<\/a>, president of Nevada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenoutreach.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Citizen Outreach Foundation<\/a>, is walking the walk. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Muth and crew launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pigpen Project<\/a>, an initiative taking on Nevada\u2019s dirty voter rolls, using an advanced software system to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-files-lawsuit-to-overturn-fraudulent-election-in-georgia\/\" title=\"TRUMP CAMPAIGN Files Lawsuit to Overturn Fraudulent Election in Georgia\">local elections officials<\/a> do their jobs. While there may be a limit to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuck-bucks-2-0-gears-up-for-2024\/\" title=\"&quot;Zuck Bucks 2.0&quot; Gears up for 2024\">election integrity watchdogs<\/a> can do in a universal mail-in ballot state with a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Party_control_of_Nevada_state_government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat-controlled legislature<\/a>, Muth said fighting for list maintenance is absolutely essential for fair elections. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the one thing we <em>can<\/em> do under existing laws \u2013 and this is non-partisan \u2013 is work to clean up our \u2018dirty\u2019 voter lists BEFORE the next election.\u00a0Nothing is more important or doable,\u201d the longtime conservative activist <a href=\"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/announcement-new-pigpen-project-website-launched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a February 2023 post announcing the rollout of the project.  <\/p>\n<p>The Pigpen Project has had some success, working with elections officials in Clark County \u2014 home to Las Vegas and the most populated region of the Silver State \u2014 in an attempt to inactivate hundreds of outdated registrations on the voter list. Election integrity success, of course, is a threat to the left, which has little <a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/issues\/the-pitfalls-of-same-day-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interest<\/a> in \u201cprotecting every <em>eligible<\/em> vote and every <em>eligible <\/em>voter.\u201d So, Democrat public relations outlets, particularly The New York Times, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-voter-rolls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacked<\/a> the effort. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Bad Addresses\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The group draws no small amount of inspiration from J. <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/about\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christian Adams\u2019 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\">Public Interest Legal Foundation,<\/a> which has taken on dirty voter rolls across the country, including swing state Nevada. As The Federalist has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/11\/william-sitton-doesnt-live-here-tracking-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, PILF has uncovered \u2014 and confirmed \u2014 hundreds of \u201cbad addresses,\u201d or individuals who don\u2019t live at the commercial addresses they have listed as their residences.\u00a0Phony addresses include everything from strip clubs to strip malls. Those individuals, according to the foundation\u2019s investigations, remain on Nevada\u2019s voter rolls. <\/p>\n<p>PILF investigators know the addresses are bad because they personally checked each one. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s similar to what Pigpen Project volunteers did in determining hundreds of individuals listed as active on Nevada\u2019s voter rolls not only live in another state, but are registered and have voted there as well. <\/p>\n<p>As of late last month, Muth told me, the Pigpen Project had submitted to local elections officials across the state more than 1,000 active names on Nevada\u2019s voter rolls of individuals who have moved, registered, and voted in another state. Those voters have been identified as having submitted a change of address to the U.S. Postal Service \u201cdeclaring they\u2019ve moved permanently to another state,\u201d Muth said. <\/p>\n<p>Muth\u2019s group has submitted the names of another 768 individuals who allegedly had moved out of state and registered there but don\u2019t appear to have voted, according to its website. Their numbers show the vast majority of those \u201cactive\u201d Nevada voters came from Clark and Washoe counties, Democrat strongholds and the dominant population centers of the state. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hese voters should be removed from the Nevada voter rolls or, at least, be moved from \u2018active\u2019 to\u00a0 \u2018inactive\u2019 status \u2013 which would mean they wouldn\u2019t be automatically mailed a ballot for the November election,\u201d Muth wrote in a June 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/second-lawsuit-filed-over-voters-registered-at-commercial-addresses-june-28-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All told, Muth said the Clark County Election Department had sent postcards out to 600 individuals confirmed by the Pigpen Project to no longer reside in Nevada. Another 117 remained to be processed by the agency. Just how many of the 717 allegedly ineligible voters have been inactivated isn\u2019t clear, and the elections office did not return a request for comment. Muth said his organization will get the updated voter list toward the end of the month, and will be able to check the status at that time.  <\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving <a href=\"https:\/\/ebenchbook.org\/nevada\/statutes\/n-r-s-%E2%80%82293-530%E2%80%82-%E2%80%82correction-of-statewide-voter-registration-list-authority-of-county-clerk-to-make-investigations-county-clerk-to-cancel-registration-of-voter-under-certain-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201creliable and reasonable\u201d<\/a> information regarding an ineligible voter, the local election office is supposed to send out a notification to the address. If a postcard comes back as undeliverable or the individual doesn\u2019t respond, the voter faces being moved from \u201cactive\u201d to \u201cinactive\u201d on the list. <\/p>\n<h2>Left-Wing Attack Machine<\/h2>\n<p>Muth said a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-voter-rolls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit piece<\/a>, headlined \u201cTrump\u2019s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls,\u201d got a lot of details about the Pigpen Project wrong. The story, Muth said, erroneously reported that the project\u2019s Eagle AI tracking software \u201cuses a platform based on data from <a href=\"http:\/\/VoteRef.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VoteRef.com<\/a>,\u201d which publishes voter information online. The left hates the Voter Reference Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/arizona-gop-elects-voteref-director-and-trump-ally-as-new-chair\/#:~:text=Perhaps%20most%20notably%2C%20Swoboda%20runs,by%20a%20billionaire%20Trump%20donor.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insisting<\/a> the organization \u201chas repeatedly pushed conspiracies about election fraud.\u201d Interestingly, Russia-collusion hoax peddler Marc Elias\u2019 Democracy Docket doesn\u2019t care for citizens investigating voter eligibility \u2014 or ineligibility, as the case may be. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoteRef has also encouraged election vigilantism, and the platform can help to increase voter challenges, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news\/challenging-someone-elses-voter-eligibility-shouldnt-be-so-easy-but-it-is\/\">legal, though deeply flawed, practice<\/a> in many states that allows private citizens to challenge the voter eligibility of other voters,\u201d the leftist website, part of a lawfare network created to help Democrats win at the polls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/arizona-gop-elects-voteref-director-and-trump-ally-as-new-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asserts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Muth said the Pigpen Project only uses NCOA (National Change of Address) data from the Postal Service provided by a licensed vendor.\u00a0And the project draws from official voter registration data from 16 states and counting, he added.  <\/p>\n<h2>Fixing a Serious Problem<\/h2>\n<p>The Times also reported that Muth and fellow conservative activist Dan Burdish, in organizing their door-to-door canvassing efforts \u201cenlisted landlords to compare voter rolls with their leading records.\u201d Muth said the Pigpen Project didn\u2019t \u201cenlist\u201d landlords. In a recent column debunking the Times hit piece, the election integrity activist wrote that some landlords learned of the project and approached the organizers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked if we could help with the problem of ballots piling up in their mail rooms for people who no longer lived there,\u201d Muth <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/pigpen-project-targeted-in-nyt-hit-piece-on-voter-file-clean-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThis is a legitimate concern and problem we\u2019re trying to fix.\u201d He noted that he and one apartment owner met with Clark County elections officials to come up with a solution \u201cwithin the requirements and constraints of election law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevertheless, how is that something nefarious?\u201d Muth <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/pigpen-project-targeted-in-nyt-hit-piece-on-voter-file-clean-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>. \u201cIf the registered voter no longer lives where they\u2019re registered to vote, how does it make sense to keep mailing them a ballot where they won\u2019t receive it\u2026or worse, could be picked up by someone other than the voter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem is exacerbated in states like swing state Nevada, where all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-hobbs-sent-thousands-of-erroneous-ballots-to-arizona-voters\/\" title=\"Katie Hobbs Sent Thousands Of Erroneous Ballots To Arizona Voters\">registered voters automatically receive<\/a> a vote-by-mail ballot \u2014 including those who should no longer be on the voter rolls. <\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Wheatley, a spokeswoman for Clark County, told the Times that Pigpen Project officials provided enough evidence \u201cfor the election department to do research and investigate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite what appears to be convincing data, Muth said some election officials have dug in their heels to defend the status quo. A Washoe County official told Elias\u2019 Democracy Docket that \u201cthird-party efforts to remove voters do not follow\u201d legal procedures \u201cto challenge the residency and eligibility of a voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a voter\u2019s responsibility to update their registration by notifying our office, and without their consent there are extensive steps defined by statute that must be taken before we can make any changes that would affect their ability to vote,\u201d Washoe County spokeswoman Bethany Drysdale wrote in an email statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/right-wing-group-attempts-to-purge-more-than-a-thousand-nevada-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> Democracy Docket.<\/p>\n<p>But Washoe County, home to Reno, Nevada\u2019s second largest city, has had some trouble moving on cleaning up its dirty voter rolls. The Public Interest Legal Foundation earlier this year filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/cases\/washoe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a> for mandamus to force Washoe County to investigate and remove illegal commercial addresses on its voter list. <\/p>\n<h2>Making the Case<\/h2>\n<p>Muth and his fellow election integrity advocates were hopeful local elections officials would finish their investigations by early this month. Stipulations in <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/nevada\/2022\/chapter-293\/statute-293-547\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nevada election law<\/a> make it more complicated to challenge eligibility in the coming months leading up to November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to take on Nevada\u2019s dirty voter rolls started relatively small by design. Muth will tell you there are tens of thousands more suspect names on the registration list, but the Citizen Outreach Foundation is but one election integrity group with only so many resources. What the Pigpen Project ultimately aims to do is demonstrate through meticulous data research and boots-on-the-ground confirmation that there is indeed a problem with voter roll maintenance in the Silver State and it needs much more attention. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order [to] work with an outside entity like us, the secretary of state has advised that all county clerks and registrars accept only information that is reasonable and reliable,\u201d Muth said. \u201cThe information that we\u2019re giving to the grassroots volunteers who are going door to door really helps buttress our case. So if the Left claims we\u2019re partisan or whacky conspiracy theorists, we\u2019ve gone door to door to make sure our information is reliable.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many conservatives are concerned about the integrity of elections, and Chuck Muth, the president of Nevada&#8217;s Citizen Outreach Foundation, is taking action to address this issue. Last year, Muth and his team launched the Pigpen Project, which aims to clean up Nevada&#8217;s voter rolls using advanced software. While there are limitations to what can be done in a state with universal mail-in ballots and a Democrat-controlled legislature, Muth believes that maintaining accurate voter lists is crucial for fair elections. The project has had some success in working with elections officials in Clark County to identify and inactivate outdated registrations. Despite facing criticism from left-leaning outlets like The New York Times, the project continues to uncover individuals who are registered in multiple states or no longer reside in Nevada. The goal is to ensure that only eligible voters are on the state&#8217;s voter rolls, and the project is working diligently to achieve this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2290971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-08-at-11.53.04-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20350,5592,34322,12404,32643],"class_list":["post-2290970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clean-up","tag-nevada","tag-pigpen-project","tag-transparency","tag-voter-rolls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-08-at-11.53.04-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}