Federal Judge Refuses to Block Nevada Mail-In Primary

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Courthouse News

KENT LAUER
April 30, 2020

RENO, Nev. (CN) – A federal judge on Thursday refused to halt a plan to conduct Nevada’s June 9 primary election chiefly by mail in light of the coronavirus pandemic, turning aside a claim that the process will ignite voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda Du rejected an injunction sought by three voters represented by True the Vote, a conservative group that bills itself as an organization for voters’ rights and election integrity.

In a 24-page order, Du concluded that the plaintiffs lacked standing to assert their claims and that Nevada’s interests in implementing the plan far outweigh the burdens placed on plaintiffs’ right to vote.

The three plaintiffs sued Nevada’s top election official, Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, who announced the election plan on March 24 because of the uncertainties surrounding the pandemic.

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[riversedge]

1. good deal.

[BadGimp]

2. the right to vote is so fundamental

... and yet the right-wingers are willing to trample that right for ALL Americans in a doomed effort to stave off the inevitable shift in US voter demographics.

Things will get much worse before they get better I'm afraid.

They will never stop with these kinds of efforts, never!

We must fight for our rights every day.

[LiberalLovinLug]

3. How is mail-in more suseptable to fraud?

"The judge found that the plaintiffs’ predominant claim of voter fraud lacks any factual basis.

Plaintiffs “cannot demonstrate a burden upon their voting rights, only an imposition upon their preference for in-person voting—as opposed to mail-in voting,” she wrote.

In addition, plaintiffs’ “overarching theory that having widespread mail-in votes makes the Nevada election more susceptible to voter fraud seems unlikely where the plan essentially maintains the material safeguards to preserve election integrity,” the judge ruled."


Good for the judge. But those anti-democratic Republicans must have had SOME angle. I wonder what their argument was. How do you defraud your ballot, vote more than once, if it is done by mail?

I think the GOP is doing this not to win necessarily, but to start to propel the propaganda. Start watering the seed of doubt about the integrity of a national mail vote federal election, if there is a second wave in the Fall.

[ampm]

4. Yea for us

I live in Nevada and I for one i get it and this is my first time voting like this and I love it