Trump Files Lawsuit in Nevada Over Poll Closing Time

Source: NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a lawsuit in Nevada, claiming that people were improperly allowed to vote after the polls closed.

As is the law in many states, the procedure in Nevada is that people in line after the polls close are allowed to vote.

The Trump campaign claims that others – who were not in line when the polls closed – were nonetheless allowed to vote.



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This would matter in a very close election.

Also, on MSNBC, a Trump surrogate indicated that they had other lawsuits in the works, and then in the same interview walked that back.

Here is a CNN report that followed with much more information:

http://gantdaily.com/2016/11/08/trump-files-nevada-voting-lawsuit/

They are suing Joe P. Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters, over a decision they allege he made to keep polling locations open “two hours beyond the designated closing time.” The lawsuit targets polling places in the greater Las Vegas area that have larger minority voting precincts.

Dan Kulin, a spokesperson for the county, told CNN that no early voting stations extended their closing times. They did, however, process voters who were in line at closing time to allow as many people to vote as possible.

In legal briefs filed Monday night, Trump lawyers are asking for an order to have the pertinent early vote ballots not to be “co-mingled or interspersed” with other ballots.

“From the polling, it appears that Nevada is so close that the Trump campaign thinks it’s worth challenging any violation in voting protocol. The numbers that came in could represent several thousand people across the four precincts, which could determine who wins the electoral college vote or change the Senate race,” said Robert Lang of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He said the Trump campaign is “smart to put a marker down for a future challenge, considering what happened in 2000 in Florida.”

ON EDIT:

The lawsuit can be read here:

http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/donald-trump-clark-county-lawsuit-registrar-voters-joe-gloria-document-polling-hours-judge-decision/