President Trump’s legal team ramped up challenges to election results in Nevada on Tuesday with a lawsuit that asserts that the president won the state, despite being more than 33,500 votes behind President-elect Joe Biden, due to problems in the voting system and fraud.
“The discrepancies and irregularities in this election will eclipse the difference in the votes between the candidates,” states the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Nevada’s 1st District Court.
That marks a stronger tone from Trump’s Nevada legal team than it’s taken previously. Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who is helping the Trump campaign’s legal effort, told the Washington Examiner last week that it was “absurd” to ask whether the campaign’s legal challenge would show that Trump is the true legal winner in Nevada’s presidential contest.
“There are north of 15,000 people who voted in Nevada and another state,” Laxalt said in a press conference on Tuesday for the new lawsuit, a new allegation.
The filing also says that there are over 1,000 people who voted in Nevada’s election despite having moved out of state. That’s lower than the previously publicized figure of 9,000 out-of-state voters. Trump’s campaign sent to the Justice Department a list of more than 3,000 Nevada voters who, according to a national change of address database, no longer live in the state. Only an estimated third of people update their address in the database, so triple the number of voters on that list comes to about 9,000.
Some of the grievances are also part of another Nevada lawsuit sitting in court, which takes issue with the state’s use of machines that verify mail-in ballot signatures. The lawsuit says that the Agilis system used in Clark County, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of voters in the state, did not accurately match signatures from mail-in ballot envelopes to signatures for voters on file.
The lawsuit also alleges that in-person voting machines in Nevada “were inherently unreliable and susceptible to being electronically compromised by malicious parties, due to a shocking lack of physical security and security.”
Lawyer Jesse Binnall said that some operations offered people things such as raffle tickets or T-shirts in exchange for voting. The lawsuit specifically named the Nevada Native Vote Project, which had some organizers sporting Biden-Harris gear, for coordinating that activity.
“That’s something that’s clearly against the law to give some one something of value to vote,” Binnall said.
