Last week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguliar (D) over allegations the 2024 battleground state has “impossibly high” voter rolls.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court, alleges that Aguliar and five county clerks failed to properly maintain the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
“Section 8 of the NVRA requires States to maintain clean and accurate voter registration records,” the lawsuit begins. “Nevada has failed to live up to the NVRA’s requirements. At least five counties in Nevada have inordinately high voter registration rates.”
According to The Daily Wire, the lawsuit also alleges three Nevada counties count more registered voters than there are adult citizens, and two additional counties “have voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18,” a number that “far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections.”
“Based on this and other evidence, Defendants are failing to make a reasonable effort to conduct appropriate list maintenance as required by the NVRA,” the lawsuit states.
Newly-elected RNC Chair Michael Whatley commented on the lawsuit, saying that looking into the voter rolls “is a critical step towards ensuring that it will be easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
“Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls, and that’s why the National Voter Registration Act requires state officials to keep their rolls accurate and up-to-date. Nevada has universal mail voting and no voter ID requirement, which makes Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar’s failure to comply with the NVRA and provide accurate voter rolls all the more concerning,” Whatley said.
RNC filed a similar lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson earlier this month, alleging that multiple counties in the vital swing state have “inflated voter rolls,” The Daily Caller reported.
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