{"id":2319827,"date":"2024-08-06T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-all-mail-balloting-made-nevadas-messy-voter-rolls-worse\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:14:10","slug":"how-all-mail-balloting-made-nevadas-messy-voter-rolls-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-all-mail-balloting-made-nevadas-messy-voter-rolls-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"How All-Mail Balloting Made Nevada&#8217;s Messy Voter Rolls &#8216;Worse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fhow-all-mail-balloting-made-nevadas-messy-voter-rolls-worse%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=2319827&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>In Nevada, the automatic mailing \u2064of \u200cballots to all individuals \u2062on the voter rolls has \u2064raised concerns about the integrity of the voter registration system, as the state struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-inflated-voter-rolls-and-botched-signature-review-wrongly-thwart-recall-of-woke-l-a-da-lawsuit-says-yes\/\" title=\"Did Inflated Voter Rolls And Botched Signature Review Wrongly Thwart Recall Of Woke L.A. DA? Lawsuit Says Yes\">maintaining accurate records<\/a>. Chuck Muth, president of the Citizen\u2063 Outreach Foundation, highlighted the \u2062urgency of having clean voter\u2064 files to combat potential fraud,\u200c especially after the 2021 law reform that mandates ballot mailing for \u2062all active voters. <\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 foundation&#8217;s initiative, known as the Pigpen Project, has filed legal challenges against nearly 4,000 registrants it believes are no longer eligible to vote in the state, primarily focusing on Clark County. Their findings, based on data from\u200d the\u200d Nevada secretary of state&#8217;s office combined \u200bwith the U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s address changes, identified 102 individuals who supposedly voted in other states after \u200dmoving from Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Muth criticized the lack of stringent efforts by election officials to ensure voter eligibility, claiming that many individuals stay on \u2062the rolls\u2062 due to insufficient verification. Nevada&#8217;s unique requirement for automatic mail-in \u2063ballots, along with its high population turnover, exacerbates the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-york-times-is-very-uncomfortable-with-citizen-oversight-of-elections\/\" title=\"NYT Disapproves of Election Oversight by Citizens\">maintaining accurate voter lists<\/a>. Despite challenges, including a recent investigation initiated by the Secretary of State&#8217;s office, \u2062state officials continue to face scrutiny regarding their processes for keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-democrats-h-r-1-is-a-power-grab-would-undermine-states-election-rules\/\" title=\"Republicans: Democrats\u2019 H.R. 1 Is a Power Grab, Would Undermine States\u2019 Election Rules\">voter registration lists<\/a> up to date.  <\/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>Nevada&rsquo;s system of automatically mailing a ballot to everyone on the voter roll makes the state&rsquo;s failure to keep clean voter rolls more dire, says the president of a watchdog group that last week claimed to have found more than 100 people on Nevada&rsquo;s voter rolls who voted in another state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The biggest problem is that they changed the law in 2021 so that every active voter is automatically mailed a ballot, so we need the cleanest possible voter files to protect against potential fraud,&rdquo; Chuck Muth, president and CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenoutreach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Citizen Outreach Foundation<\/a>, told The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>Based in Nevada, the Citizen Outreach Foundation aims to ensure accuracy within the state&rsquo;s voter rolls through the Pigpen Project. That initiative assists local election officials by identifying individuals who are no longer eligible to remain on the Silver State&rsquo;s voter registration lists.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Muth&rsquo;s team issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/tackling-complex-election-laws-the-battle-to-clean-up-nevadas-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> disclosing they have filed legal challenges contesting the eligibility of nearly 4,000 registrants they claim are no longer eligible to remain on Nevada&rsquo;s voter rolls due to no longer living in the state. Most of these challenges (3,116) were filed in Clark County, the state&rsquo;s most populous locality.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Pigpen Project used voter registration data managed by the Nevada secretary of state&rsquo;s office and the U.S. Postal Service&rsquo;s National Change of Address database to identify the allegedly unlawful registrations. It also compared this information with the &ldquo;official voter registration records of 15 other states.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With this information, the group claims to have identified at least 102 individuals who have moved out of Nevada and whose &ldquo;records show they&rsquo;ve actually VOTED in their new state.&rdquo; It also purportedly &ldquo;uncovered one instance where a voter appears to have voted in both Nevada and Texas in the 2022 general election.&rdquo; The Pigpen Project has since filed a legal complaint on the voter earlier this year, &ldquo;which is currently being investigated by the Secretary of State,&rdquo; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, did not respond to The Federalist&rsquo;s request for comment on the status of that investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the provision of state law the Pigpen Project used to file the challenges&nbsp;requires&nbsp;Nevada election officials to send a &ldquo;registration confirmation postcard&rdquo; to the challenged voter, at which point the voter is given 33 days to return the postcard or else their registration status will be moved from &ldquo;active&rdquo; to &ldquo;inactive.&rdquo;&nbsp; According to Aguilar&rsquo;s office, such postcards were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voter-rolls-cisco-aguilar-c97e8c47bb98cd4794f4a072ebb20ef2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mailed<\/a> to more than 150,000 registrants asking them to confirm their &ldquo;active&rdquo; status.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fvap.gov\/uploads\/FVAP\/Policies\/nvralaw.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal law<\/a> requires states to make &ldquo;a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters,&rdquo; the Pigpen Project <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/tackling-complex-election-laws-the-battle-to-clean-up-nevadas-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contends<\/a> that some officials &ldquo;fulfill that requirement only by moving people from active to inactive who have their ballots returned by the post office after an election or by a bulk mailing to all active voters every other year.&rdquo; This lack of due diligence, according to the group, &ldquo;has allowed tens of thousands of &lsquo;moved&rsquo; voters, who are missed by the post office for various reasons, to remain on our voter rolls.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/09\/pigpen-project-puts-boots-on-the-ground-to-expose-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pigpen Project Puts Boots On The Ground To Expose Nevada&rsquo;s Dirty Voter Rolls<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most states, Nevada requires local clerks to automatically mail individuals listed on the state&rsquo;s active voter registration list a ballot during each election cycle, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Voting_in_Nevada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ballotpedia<\/a>. That change was included in a 2021 election bill signed by then-Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak that expanded the state&rsquo;s use of unsupervised mail-in voting.<\/p>\n<p>Muth said Nevada&rsquo;s adoption of an all-mail voting system, combined with its status as a <a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/11\/11\/28\/yes-there-are-more-native-washingto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historically<\/a> transient state, has made an already difficult task of cleaning its voter rolls &ldquo;worse.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People move in and out of Nevada, especially in the Reno and Las Vegas areas, on a regular basis. So, this is an ongoing problem,&rdquo; Muth said. &ldquo;A lot of states that have a more stable population don&rsquo;t have the challenges that we have here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Cpz61NIQe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) in May showed numerous errors within the state&rsquo;s voter rolls. As my colleague Matt Kittle <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&rsquo;s Lauren Bis &ldquo;showed up on a lot of doorsteps around Las Vegas &hellip; [and] was greeted with a lot of quizzical looks from employees at the casinos, fast food restaurants, retailers, post offices, funeral homes, strip clubs, tattoo parlors, and jails where registered voters &mdash; at least according to Nevada&rsquo;s dirty voter rolls &mdash; &lsquo;resided.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/electionscorecard\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Integrity Scorecard<\/a>, which grades states and the District of Columbia on the strength of their election laws, ranks Nevada as having the second-worst election laws in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these challenges, Muth said he is &ldquo;happy&rdquo; about the progress his group is making on cleaning the Silver State&rsquo;s voter rolls, citing cooperation from local election officials. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The local officials in Clark County, where Las Vegas is [and] where most of our work has been done, have been extremely cooperative and helpful,&rdquo; Muth said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve actually given us guidance and showed us what forms we have to use and how to submit them and who to submit them to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t complain about the local election officials, they&rsquo;ve been absolutely great to work with,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      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<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada&#8217;s practice of automatically sending ballots to all individuals on the voter roll exacerbates the state&#8217;s issues with maintaining accurate voter lists, according to Chuck Muth, president of a watchdog organization. Last week, his group reported discovering over 100 individuals on Nevada&#8217;s voter rolls who had cast votes in other states. Muth emphasized that the 2021 law change mandating that every active voter receive a ballot necessitates having the most accurate voter files possible to prevent potential fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizen Outreach Foundation, which Muth leads and is based in Nevada, aims to enhance the accuracy of state voter rolls through its Pigpen Project. This initiative helps local election officials identify individuals who are no longer eligible for registration in Nevada. Recently, Muth\u2019s team filed legal challenges against nearly 4,000 registrants they believe should be removed from the rolls due to not residing in the state anymore; most of these challenges (3,116) were made in Clark County.<\/p>\n<p>The Pigpen Project utilized data from both the Nevada Secretary of State\u2019s office and the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s National Change of Address database to pinpoint these questionable registrations and compared this information with official records from 15 other states. They claim to have identified at least 102 people who have moved out of Nevada and voted in their new states; one case allegedly involved an individual voting in both Nevada and Texas during the 2022 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Muth noted that under state law used for these challenges, election officials must send a &#8220;registration confirmation postcard&#8221; to those challenged voters. If they do not respond within 33 days, their status changes from &#8220;active&#8221; to &#8220;inactive.&#8221; The Secretary of State&#8217;s office recently mailed such postcards to over 150,000 registrants for status confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>While federal law mandates reasonable efforts by states to remove names of ineligible voters from official lists, Muth argues that some officials only comply by changing statuses after returned ballots or through periodic bulk mailings every two years. This lackadaisical approach has allowed many voters who have moved but are missed by postal services for various reasons to remain registered.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many other states, Nevada requires local clerks to automatically send ballots during each election cycle based on its active registration list\u2014a change implemented as part of a broader mail-in voting expansion signed into law by former Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Muth expressed concern that this all-mail voting system combined with Nevada&#8217;s transient population complicates efforts at maintaining clean voter rolls: \u201cPeople frequently move into and out of areas like Reno and Las Vegas,\u201d he said. He pointed out that more stable populations elsewhere do not face similar difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>A documentary released earlier this year highlighted numerous inaccuracies within Nevada\u2019s voter rolls when investigators found registered voters listed at various businesses across Las Vegas where they did not actually reside.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, The Heritage Foundation ranks Nevada as having some of the weakest election laws nationwide regarding integrity measures. Despite these obstacles, Muth remains optimistic about progress being made toward cleaning up voter registrations thanks largely due cooperation from local election officials: \u201cThey\u2019ve been extremely helpful,\u201d he stated about Clark County officials\u2019 support throughout their efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2319828,"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\/Welcome_to_Las_Vegas_sign_Nevada.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[37303,32644,5592,32643],"class_list":["post-2319827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-all-mail-balloting","tag-election-integrity","tag-nevada","tag-voter-rolls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Welcome_to_Las_Vegas_sign_Nevada.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319827","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}