LAS VEGAS — An affidavit from a Nevada whistleblower alleges that election supervisors Clark County, which accounts for the vast majority of voters in the state, counted mail-in ballots despite concerns about whether signatures were valid.
The whistleblower, according to a partially redacted affidavit obtained by the Washington Examiner, began working as a counting board member for the Clark County elections office in mid-October. On Nov. 6, the whistleblower stopped working as a ballot counter “due to concerns about how the votes were being counting [sic].” The affidavit has been sent to the Department of Justice.
“I personally witnessed disregard of signature verification as well as other irregularities,” the whistleblower said in the affidavit. “While working, I observed a significant number of signatures on mail-in ballots I believe did not match the name and should have been reviewed. When I asked the supervisors, [redacted] and others, about it, instead of taking the ballots to verify the signature in the electronic database, the supervisor told me to push the envelope through without verification.”
Nevada lawmakers in August changed the law to send every registered voter a mail-in ballot, resulting in hoards of ballots being sent to old addresses or to deceased people.
In one specific instance, the whistleblower said a voter reported on the envelope of a mail-in ballot that he or she no longer resided at the address on the ballot.
“This ballot should have been listed as a rejected ballot, but the supervisor instructed me to push the ballot through,” the affidavit said.
Registrar of voters in Clark County Joe Gloria responded: “The people on the counting board don’t have access to the signature map. So that’s work that takes place here in this building before it ever gets to the county. So I think that explains. I’m not completely familiar with what exactly the individuals was talking about in specific instances, but we we have an explanation for anything that he may have seen.”
The whistleblower initially came forward to the Nevada Republican Party, which has set up a system where the voters can report allegations of voter fraud, mismanagement, disenfranchisement, or other issues.
President Trump’s campaign and Republicans have flagged other alleged issues with counted ballots in Nevada, where ballot-counting continues as the president trails presumptive President-elect Joe Biden by about 31,500 votes.
Last week, Republicans filed a lawsuit and forwarded a complaint to the Justice Departmen,t alleging that the county’s election official failed to maintain the county’s voter list sufficiently, resulting in 3,000 voters who had changed their address out of Nevada voting in this year’s general election. The Clark County elections office has said that some of those names include voters in the military who can legally cast a ballot while living temporarily out of state.
A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump campaign attempt to invalidate the use of a machine that validated voter signatures on mail-in ballots.
