{"id":2351986,"date":"2024-10-08T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T12:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nv-failed-mass-mail-in-ballot-experiment-shouldnt-be-a-blueprint\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T12:50:09","slug":"nv-failed-mass-mail-in-ballot-experiment-shouldnt-be-a-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nv-failed-mass-mail-in-ballot-experiment-shouldnt-be-a-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"NV Failed Mass Mail-In Ballot Experiment Shouldn&#8217;t Be A Blueprint"},"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\">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%2Fnv-failed-mass-mail-in-ballot-experiment-shouldnt-be-a-blueprint%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=2351986&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,\u2063 the \u2063voting\u2064 and election process has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/f-35-costs-have-been-declining-but-thats-about-to-change\/\" title=\"F-35 Costs Have Been Declining, But That\u2019s About to Change\">faced significant challenges<\/a>,\u200b particularly regarding voter roll accuracy. In 2020, Clark \u2062County initiated\u200b a controversial experiment by automatically \u200cmailing ballots to all active\u200c registered voters, a practice \u200bthat has continued \u2062despite resulting in numerous issues, including ballots \u200bbeing \u2064sent to commercial addresses like strip\u200b clubs and casinos. The Public\u2062 Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) documented hundreds\u200c of such addresses and urged Clark County&#8217;s Registrar \u2063of\u200d Voters, Lorena Portillo, to investigate and correct these inaccuracies ahead of the 2024\u2063 presidential election. After\u2064 receiving no response, PILF resorted to legal action, which successfully compelled\u2062 the county to review and amend the voter\u2064 rolls, ensuring ballots would not be \u2064sent to addresses without residents. This situation reflects ongoing problems with\u2064 Nevada&#8217;s vote-by-mail\u200c system, as evidenced by over 92,000 undeliverable mail ballots \u200din Clark\u2064 County in 2020, \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-psychiatrist-and-founder-of-moviefone-accused-of-holding-sex-slave-tied-to-epstein\/\" title=\"Yale psychiatrist and Moviefone founder implicated in sex trafficking linked to Epstein\">highlighting systemic issues<\/a> that warrant ongoing scrutiny and reform.  <\/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>You would think that with all the new technology nowadays our voting and election process would be reliable and effective. That is not the case in Nevada, where it took a lawsuit to force a Clark County election official to clean up the voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>What should have been a one-time failed experiment of automatically mailing a ballot to every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-recall-effort-receives-1m-boost-from-john-cox\/\" title=\"Gavin Newsom recall effort receives M boost from John Cox\">active registered voter<\/a> in 2020 is now the norm. The automatic mass mailing of ballots sounds nice. The reality is that it sent ballots to strip clubs, casinos, and bars.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Interest Legal Foundation (of which I am president) photographed hundreds of commercial addresses listed as residences on the Nevada voter roll. Some of these addresses included a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Cpz61NIQe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonic Drive-In, the Las Vegas Airport, a 7-Eleven gas station, vacant lots, Binion&rsquo;s casino, and the Larry Flynt Hustler club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We delivered this information, including pictures of the locations where it appeared people did not live, to Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo. All we wanted her to do was investigate these addresses and, if her office found that no one lived at these addresses, make corrections to the voter roll before the 2024 presidential election ballots hit the mail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We waited for a response, but weeks of crickets from Clark County forced us to file a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>. As a direct result of this litigation,&nbsp;<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\">Clark County investigated and made corrections<\/a>&nbsp;to the voter roll &mdash; ensuring mail ballots will not be sent to commercial addresses where no one lives.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Nevada has had problems with its automatic vote-by-mail system. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/pilf-files\/NV-2020-General-1P.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government data<\/a>, in 2020 more than 92,000 mail ballots in Clark County alone were returned as undeliverable, meaning they had a wrong or outdated address. To put this figure into perspective, President Joe Biden only carried the state by a little more than 33,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&rsquo;re willing to give Nevada election officials a pass for the first time they tried pushing an election to the mail &mdash; after all, it was during an unprecedented pandemic. But things got worse in 2022. In the 2022 midterms,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NV-2022G-Mail-Ballot-Rejects.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 95,000<\/a>&nbsp;mail ballots statewide were undeliverable. The state&rsquo;s key U.S. Senate race was decided by less than 8,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>These types of figures don&rsquo;t scream confidence in the election process. They make me long for the days when they kept ballots locked up at polling places and not with the U.S. Postal Service. Not only is there an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-lawmakers-weigh-ban-on-ballot-drop-boxes-new-voter-id-rules-over-election-security-concerns\/\" title=\"Florida Lawmakers Weigh Ban On Ballot Drop Boxes, New Voter ID Rules Over Election Security Concerns\">election security concern<\/a> about nearly 100,000 live ballots going to addresses where the voter does not live, but there are also concerns about mail ballots delaying election results.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m old enough to remember when we would know who our next president was going to be on election night. Unfortunately, that golden era of elections seems to be over. Now we have &ldquo;Election Month,&rdquo; or more accurately, months. Mass vote-by-mail&nbsp;is the driving factor behind why Americans will likely go to bed on election night not knowing if the next president is Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the expansion of mail voting, many states, including Nevada, now accept mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. It&rsquo;s hard to call an election when ballots can arrive days and, in some states, even weeks after election night. &ldquo;Election Month&rdquo; undermines the consent of the governed. As long as states like Nevada push their elections to the mail and accept mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, election results will be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic vote-by-mail is the absolute worst election system in the United States.&nbsp;Surely it isn&rsquo;t worth it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      J. Christian Adams is the President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a former Justice Department attorney, and current commissioner on the United States Commission for Civil Rights.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada&#8217;s voting process remains unreliable despite new technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1127,"featured_media":2351987,"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\/10\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-10-02T100907.660.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32644,19396,5886,42550,42549],"class_list":["post-2351986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-election-integrity","tag-experiment","tag-failed","tag-mass-mail-in-ballot","tag-nv"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-10-02T100907.660.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351986","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\/1127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}