An election integrity group that withdrew its lawsuits seeking to remove allegedly ineligible registrants from Nevada’s voter rolls is planning to re-issue its challenges following Election Day, The Federalist has learned.
“We’re going to come back and refile after November 5th,” Citizen Outreach Foundation (COF) President Chuck Muth told The Federalist.
The entire saga began earlier this year when the COF via its Pigpen Project began filing citizen-led challenges to potentially ineligible electors on the state voter rolls. Using data from government agencies and various sections under state statute, the group worked with local election officials to ensure its affidavits were filed in accordance with state law.
After the CFO spent months working through this process and navigating roadblocks erected by Democrat Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar’s office, the secretary’s team issued a memo on Aug. 27 instructing local clerks to effectively stop processing challenges filed by the COF.
In the directive, Deputy Secretary of Elections Mark Wlaschin arbitrarily claimed that Aguilar understood the “personal knowledge” requirement in the statute used by Muth’s group to make its challenges “to mean the same thing” as it does in a separate provision of state law. Wlaschin instructed local officials to “reject” challenges that did not comply with his office’s interpretation of the law, thus cutting off the CFO’s avenue for filing challenges to potentially unlawful registrants.
This prompted Muth and his group to file a lawsuit against the Carson City and Storey County clerks on Sept. 20. The suit alleged
