Trump Campaign Sues Over Early Voting In Nevada

Evan Vucci

The Donald Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Monday against election officials in Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, CNN reported.

The Trump campaign is suing Joe P. Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters, claiming that he kept polling locations open for “two hours beyond the designated closing time,” according to CNN.

Early voting surged in the Las Vegas, particularly in locations in Latino communities, like a Hispanic grocery store where voters waited in lines for hours, according to reports.

Nevada elections officials deny the Trump campaign's claims. A Clark County spokesman told CNN that officials only allowed those who arrived at the polling place by the official closing time to vote. He denied that the closing times were extended.

Nevada law says that polling places should be remained open for voters waiting in line by the official closing time.

The Trump campaign's lawsuit is requesting that the early vote ballots cast at the locations in question be kept separate from other ballots while the issue is litigated, according to the CNN report.

Pete Williams reported on MSNBC that the complaint points to four seperate polling places in Las Vegas, including the Hispanic grocery store Cardenas.

"They say in a couple of these polling places, the poll workers made the decision earlier in the day that they would stay open until 10 o'clock. Not just when they saw that there was a long line," Williams said. He added that there was a second claim, "that people who showed up, got into the end of the line, after the polls closed and were still allowed to vote."

He said there were 100 pages of legal filings that included affidavits from people at the polling places who say they witnessed "irregularities."

Read the complaint, via UC-Irvine School of Law professor Rick Hasen, below:

Trump Nevada Lawsuit by hasenr on Scribd

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Tierney Sneed is a reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked for U.S. News and World Report. She grew up in Florida and attended Georgetown University.
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