Nevada


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Nevada Mail Ballot Machine Challenge IV
Republican congressional candidate challenged the use of a mail ballot processing machine in Nevada and requested new election.
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Nevada Mail Ballot Machine Challenge III
Republican state senate candidate sued the Democratic incumbent. The lawsuit challenged the use of a mail ballot processing machine in Nevada and requested a new election.
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Nevada Mail Ballot Machine Challenge II
Republican congressional candidate challenged the use of a mail ballot processing machine in Nevada and requested new election.
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Nevada Election Law Contest
Election contest backed by the Trump Campaign alleging voter fraud in Nevada.
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Nevada Mail Ballot Machine Challenge
Republican state senate candidate challenged the use of a mail ballot processing machine in Nevada and requested new election.
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Clark County Vote Count Halt
Lawsuit backed by the Trump Campaign addressing signature matching technology and right to observe.
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Nevada Polling Place Extension
Election Day lawsuit extending poll closing times.
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Nevada Ballot Observation Intervention
Moved to intervene as defendants in a Trump Campaign case attempting to prohibit the processing and counting of ballots until they are allowed to observe the process in Clark County.
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Nevada Election Integrity Intervention
On behalf of the Institute for a Progressive Nevada and Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, we filed a motion to intervene as defendants in a right-wing lawsuit attempting to undermine vote by mail in Nevada. The lawsuit, brought by Election Integrity Project of Nevada, challenged the state’s efforts to protect Nevada voters during the pandemic.
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Nevada RNC Intervention
Republicans and the Trump campaign challenged Nevada’s election bill enacted in response to our Four Pillars litigation. The bill legalized ballot collection, adopted a new standard and more generous cure options for signature match, required polling locations on Nevada’s reservations, and many other voting rights expansions necessary for the 2020 general election. On behalf of the DNC, DCCC and Nevada State Democratic Party, we intervened on the side of the defendants.
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Nevada Recall Effort
Representing State Senators who argued that a recall effort against them had thousands of invalid signatures.
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Nevada Ballot Initiative
Representing the nonprofit Tu Casa Latina in its assertion that a ballot initiative petition by Prevent Sanctuary Cities PAC was invalid.
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Nevada Voter ID (Ballot Petition Challenge)
Represented voters keeping a voter ID law petition off the ballot.
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Nevada Redistricting
Represented Democratic voters in redistricting lawsuit after the continued failure of the Nevada Legislature to pass legislation that the Governor would not veto. The court found the existing Congressional and Legislative Districts were “unconstitutionally malapportioned” violating the 14th amendment and the U.S. Constitution.
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Nevada COVID-19 Election Relief
We sued on behalf of individual plaintiffs, the Nevada State Democratic Party, the DNC, the DCCC and Priorities USA ahead of the June 2020 Nevada Primary Election. The Nevada Secretary of State announced this primary would be all-mail, closing every polling location except for one in each county. This plan will leave too many Nevadans without a meaningful ability to vote, as it excludes qualified voters with “inactive” status and exacerbates existing problems with Nevada’s election laws such as a ballot collection ban and signature matching rules. We voluntarily dismissed the case after the legislature responded to our litigation with a bill that addressed 100% of our case claims.
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Nevada Vote by Mail Federal Intervention
We successfully intervened as defendants on behalf of the Nevada State Democratic Party, DNC, DCCC, Priorities and an individual voter. Plaintiffs in this federal case are attempting to shut down the Nevada Secretary’s move to an all-mail election due to the unprecedented public health crisis caused by COVID-19. We intervened to support the Secretary’s decision to designate this an all-mail election, while still noting that the Secretary’s policy does not go far enough to protect all Nevada voters by referencing our Nevada four pillars case.