As America hurtles toward another high-stake presidential election, Nevada is shaping up to be a closely watched battleground state likely to determine which party wins the White House this November.
While considered to be more Democrat-friendly since Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, the Silver State has slowly shed its blue hue for a purple one in recent years. President Joe Biden, for example, won Nevada by less than 34,000 votes during the 2020 election. The state’s 2022 elections produced even slimmer margins, in which Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and now-Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo won their races by 7,928 and 15,386 votes, respectively.
In a state where residents on the “active” voter registration lists are automatically mailed a ballot every election cycle, ballot-chasing operations will undoubtedly be paramount in determining the fate of numerous races and state constitutional amendment proposals.
Ballot chasing is a process that often involves third parties regularly engaging potential voters throughout a given cycle, with the ultimate goal of getting that voter to cast his ballot in the primary and general elections. In states such as Nevada, these third parties may also “harvest” or deliver a voter’s ballot if that voter authorizes them to do so.
While used by Democrats in recent years to win close elections, one group is hoping its ballot-chasing efforts are enough to push Republicans and conservative priorities over the finish line.
Known as the Sun City Summerlin Conservatives Club (SCSCC), the grassroots organization is seeking to give Democrats’ election machine a run
