{"id":2337094,"date":"2024-09-05T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nv-county-official-forced-to-investigate-dirty-voter-rolls\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:51:07","slug":"nv-county-official-forced-to-investigate-dirty-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nv-county-official-forced-to-investigate-dirty-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"NV County Official &#8216;Forced&#8217; To Investigate Dirty Voter Rolls"},"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%2Fnv-county-official-forced-to-investigate-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=2337094&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 Clark County, Nevada, the\u200c Registrar of Voters, Lorena Portillo, has finally agreed\u2063 to investigate suspicious voter addresses following threats of legal action from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). This scrutiny arose after numerous claims of voters registered at commercial properties like \u2064bars, strip clubs, and gas stations,\u200d which raised concerns about the integrity of voter rolls, particularly in a\u2063 state with known issues of inflated voter registration figures. PILF has \u2063documented &#8220;hundreds of questionable addresses&#8221; and has evidence showing that many individuals \u2064listed do not actually reside at \u2064these locations. After a lawsuit was filed to compel action, Portillo&#8217;s office decided to conduct an investigation into these \u2064addresses, likely to\u200b avoid embarrassment in court by defending such practices. The case was ultimately dismissed\u2063 after verification and corrections were\u200c made on the voter rolls. This situation\u2062 has\u200b highlighted significant ongoing concerns about election integrity in Nevada.  <\/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>The top election official for swing state Nevada&rsquo;s most populous county relented and finally decided to look into &ldquo;bad addresses&rdquo; on the state&rsquo;s voter rolls. While claims of voters residing at strip clubs, bars, and casinos should have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-interior-secy-nominee-deb-haaland-sparks-fears-over-radical-left-wing-climate-policies\/\" title=\"Biden Interior secy. nominee Deb Haaland sparks fears over radical left-wing climate policies\">raised red flags<\/a> for Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo, apparently it took the threat of a court order to grab her attention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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> election integrity watchdog the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Interest Legal Foundation<\/a> (PILF) has, even <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/press\/lawsuit-nevada-officials-need-to-investigate-and-fix-commercial-addresses-on-the-voter-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;since before the 2020 election,&rdquo;<\/a> investigated bad addresses in the Silver State &mdash; individuals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-pac-helped-group-that-pushed-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams\u2019 Voting Rights PAC Helped Group That Pushed Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories\">voter registration database<\/a> who purportedly live at commercial addresses. PILF investigators have <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/press\/pilfs-lawsuit-forced-clark-county-election-officials-to-investigate-and-fix-errors-on-the-voter-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documented<\/a> &ldquo;hundreds of questionable addresses&rdquo; on the rolls, including vacant lots, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chick-fil-a-is-facing-a-sauce-shortage\/\" title=\"Chick-Fil-A Is Facing A Sauce Shortage\">fast food restaurants<\/a>, gas stations, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/11\/william-sitton-doesnt-live-here-tracking-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tattoo parlors, and funeral homes<\/a>. They have captured on camera employees and business owners confirming that the individuals listed as residing at the commercial addresses in fact did not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was looking for Ronald or William Phelps,&rdquo; the foundation&rsquo;s Lauren Bis, director of communication and engagement, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/11\/william-sitton-doesnt-live-here-tracking-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>&nbsp;to a bartender in Las Vegas, according to video footage from PILF. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know who that is,&rdquo; the barkeep replies. She chuckles, likely at the thought that someone would list a bar as their address. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It sounds absurd, but this is serious stuff on the election integrity front, especially in a state accused of having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/republicans-lawsuit-slams-failure-to-update-voter-registration-rolls-in-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;impossibly high&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;voter registration numbers, and one that allows&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/15\/in-nevadas-biggest-county-nearly-40000-ballots-counted-despite-arriving-after-election-day-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late-arriving ballots<\/a>&nbsp;to be counted long after Election Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Bad Optics&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Bis told me that PILF sent Portillo a letter with photos and details about the bad addresses, advising the office to investigate further. The foundation received no response before filing a <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> in Nevada&rsquo;s 8th Judicial District Court seeking a writ of mandamus ordering the elections official to do her job. According to Bis, the Clark petition drew the attention of bogus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2069090\/dnc-parts-ways-with-marc-elias-the-clintonworld-lawyer-behind-trump-russia-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russian dossier peddler<\/a> and Democrat Party problem fixer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/19\/democrat-fixer-marc-elias-firm-steps-in-to-stop-disastrous-election-system-fix\/\">Marc Elias<\/a>. &ldquo;As we filed the lawsuit, Mark Elias filed the motion to intervene,&rdquo; she told me.<\/p>\n<p>Bis also told me that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/sos\/sos-information\/office-facts\/about-francisco-v-aguilar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secretary of State Francisco &ldquo;Cisco&rdquo; Aguilar<\/a> then came calling. He planned to intervene in the lawsuit. &ldquo;Shortly after, we got a call from the Secretary of State saying they would file a motion to intervene,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>While Aguilar is a partisan Democrat, PILF assumed he would intervene on behalf of election law and clean voter rolls. Nope. He planned to defend the county registrar&rsquo;s recalcitrance, Bis said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But a funny thing happened leading up to the court hearing, scheduled for last week. Portillo apparently agreed to PILF&rsquo;s demands to investigate the well-documented bad addresses on Clark County&rsquo;s voter rolls and &ldquo;informed the Petitioners that her office did conduct an investigation of the 90 addresses and made determinations,&rdquo; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-08-21-PILFs-stiuplation-of-dismissal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stipulation order <\/a>that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Why the sudden change of heart?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think part of them didn&rsquo;t want to go up against us in court, where we would show photos of the strip clubs and bars where these individuals said they resided,&rdquo; Bis told me in an interview. &ldquo;It was bad optics all around and really indefensible, and I think they did not want to be in a court of law defending the status quo.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We asked them to do the bare minimum, which was to investigate these, and they looked ridiculous,&rdquo; Bis added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PILF <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/press\/pilfs-lawsuit-forced-clark-county-election-officials-to-investigate-and-fix-errors-on-the-voter-roll\/\">dismissed<\/a> the case after learning that Portillo ultimately had her office investigate the suspect names on the rolls and make corrections and fix errors where needed, Bis said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Wheatley, spokeswoman for Clark County, said in an email response that the county is unable to comment on litigation. <\/p>\n<p>PILF can. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because of PILF&rsquo;s lawsuit, Clark County was forced to investigate crazy addresses listed as residences on the voter roll including strip clubs, casinos, and gas stations,&rdquo; said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, in an Aug. 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/press\/pilfs-lawsuit-forced-clark-county-election-officials-to-investigate-and-fix-errors-on-the-voter-roll\/\">press release<\/a>.&nbsp;&ldquo;Without this litigation, mail ballots would have gone to improper addresses.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>PILF is seeking the same in <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/press\/lawsuit-nevada-officials-need-to-investigate-and-fix-commercial-addresses-on-the-voter-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washoe County<\/a>, home to Reno and Nevada&rsquo;s second-most populous county.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;So Much Chaos&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Complicating election integrity efforts is Nevada&rsquo;s 2022 move to holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkcountynv.gov\/government\/departments\/elections\/services\/mb.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-mail ballot elections<\/a> in which all active registered voters automatically receive a ballot in the mail. The ballot arrives whether or not the voter requests one, although voters may go through the process of opting out. That deadline is Friday.&nbsp;Ballots start going out <a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.clarkcountynv.gov\/\/Election%20Department\/2024\/2024-Dates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">later this month.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deep blue Clark and Washoe counties made the difference in delivering Democrat Joe Biden a victory in swing state Nevada by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/silverstate2020gen\/USPresidential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30,000 votes<\/a> over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The Silver State&rsquo;s all-mail ballot system will be closely watched in the rematch of 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It has caused so much chaos in this state,&rdquo; Bis said. &ldquo;The automatic vote-by-mail experiment has to end.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-throws-out-leftist-nevada-ags-phony-fake-electors-case\/\" title=\"Judge Throws Out Leftist Nevada AG&#039;s Phony &#039;Fake Electors&#039; Case\">senior elections correspondent<\/a> 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>The chief election official for Nevada&#8217;s largest county, which is a key swing state, has finally agreed to investigate &#8220;bad addresses&#8221; on the state&#8217;s voter registration lists. Despite alarming reports of voters claiming to live at strip clubs, bars, and casinos that should have prompted immediate action from Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo, it seems that only the possibility of a court order got her attention. <\/p>\n<p>As reported by The Federalist, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an organization focused on election integrity, has been examining questionable addresses in Nevada since before the 2020 election. They found numerous individuals listed in the voter registration database as residing at commercial locations such as vacant lots, fast food restaurants, gas stations, tattoo parlors, and funeral homes. PILF investigators have even recorded business owners confirming that these individuals do not actually live at these addresses.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance captured on video by PILF&#8217;s Lauren Bis while speaking with a bartender in Las Vegas about two individuals supposedly living there\u2014Ronald or William Phelps\u2014the bartender laughed off the idea that someone would use a bar as their residence.<\/p>\n<p>While this situation may seem absurd, it raises serious concerns about election integrity in a state already criticized for having &#8220;impossibly high&#8221; voter registration figures and allowing ballots to be counted long after Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>PILF had previously sent Portillo evidence regarding these dubious addresses but received no response until they filed a lawsuit in Nevada\u2019s 8th Judicial District Court demanding she fulfill her duties. This legal action caught the attention of Marc Elias\u2014a Democratic Party operative known for his involvement with controversial political matters\u2014who sought to intervene in the case alongside Secretary of State Francisco \u201cCisco\u201d Aguilar.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Aguilar being affiliated with the Democratic Party and expected to support clean voter rolls efforts instead chose to defend Portillo\u2019s reluctance to act. However, just before their court hearing last week took place, Portillo agreed to investigate these problematic addresses after all and informed PILF that her office had looked into 90 specific cases.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted this change? According to Bis&#8217; insights during an interview: \u201cI think part of them didn\u2019t want to go up against us in court,\u201d where they would have had difficulty defending their position given evidence like photos from strip clubs and bars associated with registered voters\u2019 claims.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately satisfied with Portillo&#8217;s decision to address these issues within her office rather than continue litigation against them; PILF dropped its lawsuit. A spokesperson for Clark County stated they could not comment on ongoing litigation but acknowledged through J. Christian Adams from PILF that their lawsuit compelled Clark County officials into investigating inappropriate residential listings which could have led mail ballots being sent incorrectly if left unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>PILF is now pursuing similar investigations in Washoe County\u2014the second most populous county home to Reno\u2014as well amidst complications arising from Nevada\u2019s shift towards all-mail ballot elections initiated in 2022 where every active registered voter automatically receives a ballot without needing prior request unless opting out by deadline approaching soon when ballots will start being distributed later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The significant role played by deep blue counties like Clark and Washoe was evident during Joe Biden&#8217;s victory over Donald Trump by approximately 30k votes during 2020 elections; thus making upcoming rematch closely monitored especially concerning mail-in voting system causing considerable chaos according Bis who advocates ending automatic vote-by-mail practices altogether<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2337095,"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\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-11.32.27-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[40166,32644,40165,32645],"class_list":["post-2337094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-dirty-voter-rolls","tag-election-integrity","tag-nv-county-official","tag-voter-fraud"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-11.32.27-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337094","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=2337094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}