Nevada Secretary of State He refused to lift the ban on manual vote counting ahead of the November 8 elections despite pressure from conservatives about “election integrity concerns”.
Secretary of State Barbara Segavsky, a Republican, ordered Nye County election officials last week to halt manual vote counting until polls close on Election Day.
Her order came after the Nevada Supreme Court issued an advisory opinion siding with the American Civil Liberties Union, which objected to officials reading individual voices out loud.
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Cegavske called on county election officials to improve or explain the procedures included in their counter-proposal for silent manual counting in a speech on Friday.
But the state Supreme Court ruling made it more difficult for Nye County officials to review, submit, and then implement plans for manual triage.
The ACLU and Nye County lawyers are too immersed in another controversy related to vote counting After the ACLU observer was removed from the manual count that only lasted two days before Cegavske was suspended on Thursday.
Questions remain as to why the observer was dismissed by an electoral official Open arms.
Nye County attorneys claimed that the county Republican Central Committee chairman, who was legally armed, worked as a hand-sort volunteer trained by temporary county clerk Mark Kampf when she confronted the ACLU observer.
The GOP chairman reportedly believed that the ACLU observer was counting the votes, a violation of recount rules.
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The ACLU has challenged the charges, and the issue is not expected to be resolved until after the November 8 elections, making it unlikely that manual counting will resume before polls close next week.
Cegavske pointed out a number of issues she was interested in regarding the silent count proposal.
“There are no provisions in your plan describing the required use of medical-style gloves to further mitigate the risk of fraud or accidental labeling, nor a standardized, standardized triage device to ensure that any new label can be quickly identified,” she said.
Cegavske also expressed concern about the attention each silent counter would require.
Nai County Cents Manual Counting Process Following concerns about election integrity that stem from conspiracy theories regarding the accuracy of vote-counting machines from the 2020 election.
County attorneys penned a letter calling on Cegavske to launch a hand-count investigation after the ACLU accused county election officials of a “coordinated effort to administer the election.”
Civil Liberties Union She doubled down on her stated concerns after the letter.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.