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From the New York Post: Republicans have vowed to continue pressing legal claims against Nevada’s 2021 law allowing the inclusion of mail-in ballots received up to four days after Election Day.
Federal District Court Chief Judge Miranda Du said plaintiffs including the Republican National Committee, the state GOP, the 2024 Trump campaign and Nevada voter Donald Szymanski, a registered Republican, “lack standing to challenge the Nevada mail ballot receipt deadline.”
The plaintiffs had sued Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, Washoe County Registrar of Voters Cari-Ann Burgess, Washoe County Clerk Jan Galassini and Lorena Portillo and Lynn Marie Goya, respectively Clark County’s voter registrar and county clerk. The two counties are the state’s most populous.
Du, 54, was nominated by President Barack Obama to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada in 2011, and confirmed by the Senate in 2012.
Just in the two counties of Clark and Washoe, 45,596 mail-in ballots were counted in 2022 voting, with 89% of those arriving the day after Election Day, the report states.
The report explains that, in a 15-page ruling, Du claimed that none of the plaintiff’s claims demonstrates they “have suffered, or will likely suffer, an injury” if the ballot-counting measure is allowed to stand.
“The Nevada mail ballot receipt deadline does not have an ‘individual and personal’ effect on the voting power of Republican voters; it neither undermines their access to the polls nor disproportionately diminishes the weight of their votes relative to other Nevada voters,” Du claimed.
Activist judge, Miranda Du, ruled Nevada can keep counting ballots that show up after election day.
https://t.co/KJlMggecTo pic.twitter.com/JoG5NgNJ4w— Watching The Defectives (@shannon_alter) July 18, 2024
“The Court finds that Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the Nevada mail ballot receipt deadline and dismisses this case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction,” Chief U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du wrote.@eric_neugeboren reports: https://t.co/61SxivhICa
— Nevada Independent (@TheNVIndy) July 19, 2024
