2016 Postmortem
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"Stop the voting," says the republican!
In a sign that the legal team for the Trump campaign is aggressively laying the groundwork for potential legal challenges -- big and small -- lawyers have gone to state court in Nevada in an early vote dispute.
In legal briefs filed last night, Trump lawyers are asking for relief in case the election of presidential electors from the State of Nevada is contested.
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.
Trump lawyers are asking for an order to have the pertinent early vote ballots not to be co-mingled or interspersed with other ballots. - CNN
Update - 10:30AM 11/08/16
11:15 AM PST Update - requires media player - Link on their page
If there are people in line waiting to vote at 7pm, voting must continue until everyone votes...we still live in America, right? - Ross Miller, former NV SoS
"It seems to go against the very principle that the vote is secret." -- Judge Sturman.
Judge Sturman pointing out how insane this is because YOU CAN'T OPEN BALLOTS AND SEE HOW PEOPLE VOTED! - Jon Ralston
Update 11:40 AM PST
For you legalees, <here's the actual lawsuit paperwork>
Update 11:45 AM PST
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)They kept them open because people were in line already, perfectly acceptable.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)He is already beginning to build up reasons for his upcoming epic failure.
As long as people are in line, they can vote!
What a complete fucking stupid asshole!
niyad
(113,348 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)That if there are people in line they have to be allowed to vote
nini
(16,672 posts)How they're going to prove any of this is unknown.
idiots
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Everyone in line at 7PM gets to vote.
Cerridwen
(13,258 posts)1.??If at the hour of closing the polls there are any registered voters waiting to vote, the doors of the polling place must be closed after all such voters have been admitted to the polling place. Voting must continue until those voters have voted.
2.??The deputy sheriff shall allow other persons to enter the polling place after the doors have been closed for the purpose of observing or any other legitimate purpose if there is room within the polling place and such admittance will not interfere unduly with the voting.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 256; A 1987, 341)
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-293.html#NRS293Sec305
I see some wiggle room for the "letter of the law" versus "the spirit of the law." Beyond that and not being familiar with case law, or in fact, since I am not a lawyer, I'm going to go with sounds like a shit lawsuit to me.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Once a voter is in line, it's perfectly legal for voters to be able to cast their ballots even after the polls officially close.
still_one
(92,219 posts)on
adigal
(7,581 posts)if it's still going on in December??
Her camp is super savvy - I'm sure they have a plan for this bs.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...when turning away voters in line at closing time would have been illegal.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)What horrible people they are.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)marlakay
(11,476 posts)Before closing time your in. Not voters fault they don't have enough voting places, not our fault it takes many hours standing in line.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Anyone but White people voting.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)fucking shocked.
avebury
(10,952 posts)and equipment people would be able to get in and out during the period of voting. They are the ones that created the requirement that people stand in line for hours to do their civic duty and vote.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)people that "of course" they want everyone to vote. Which is, I guess, why they didn't want those people to vote. Someone should call them up and tell them all the people waiting in line were Trump voters and they'd be really upset if their votes were tossed.
The lawsuit would go away in about 10 seconds.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)she is basically saying there is no need to rule in his favor because all the info they are asking for is already required to be preserved under existing law.
also, the laws for early voting are different, the line stays open as long as people are in it. People can join the line as long as it exists.
She is also telling him she wont publicly release poll worker names. She specifically pointed out privacy interests. the info is available privately.