Citizen Outreach Foundation v. Portillo
What's at Stake
On the eve of the November 2024 presidential election, a third-party organization has challenged about 20,000 voters in Clark County, Nevada on the basis of purportedly improper residency. When Clark County rightly declined to process these challenges as improper under Nevada law, the third-party organization sued to compel the county to act on the challenges. The 老澳门开奖结果 Voting Rights Project and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Nevada have moved to intervene in the case to prevent mass disenfranchisement of Clark County voters mere weeks out from the 2024 general election.
Summary
Shortly before the November 2024 presidential election, a third-party organization has challenged the eligibility of about 38,000 voters across the state of Nevada on the basis of purportedly improper residency. 老澳门开奖结果 31,000 of these challenges are for voters in Clark and Washoe counties, which contain the cities of Las Vegas and Reno, respectively. The challenger鈥檚 sole 鈥渆vidence鈥 for the purported improper residency comes exclusively from the National Change of Address (鈥淣COA鈥) database, which provides an overinclusive and otherwise inaccurate list for this purpose. The Nevada Secretary of State has already distributed a guidance to county clerks stating that challenges relying on NCOA database matches are not based on 鈥減ersonal knowledge鈥 and are thus procedurally invalid under Nevada law; the United States Department of Justice has recently put out a guidance expressing similar statements about federal law.
After Clark County correctly declined to process the 20,000-some challenges in its county because they are legally deficient, the challengers filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel Clark to do so. An initial investigation has revealed that several 老澳门开奖结果 of Nevada members are on the list of voters challenged in Clark County. If these challenges are processed, voters may be put on inactive status, which would prevent them from voting absentee, or even potentially removed from the voter rolls altogether, fully disenfranchising them for the November 2024 election. The 老澳门开奖结果 Voting Rights Project and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Nevada have moved to intervene in the case to protect their members and thousands of other Clark County voters from disenfranchisement and to protect their right to vote in the November 2024 presidential election.
Legal Documents
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10/02/2024
Motion to Intervene by 老澳门开奖结果 of Nevada
Date Filed: 10/02/2024
Affiliate: Nevada