A grassroots organization is demanding to know why Nevada’s Democrat elections chief is limiting citizens’ ability to challenge potentially ineligible registrants on the state’s voter rolls.
In a letter sent to Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar on Sunday, Citizen Outreach Foundation President Chuck Muth questioned the rationale behind a memo issued by the secretary’s office to local election officials on Aug. 27 instructing them to refrain from complying with voter registrant challenges made under a specific provision of state law.
“If there are raised any doubts about the integrity of any elections in Nevada in November that turn out to be close, it won’t be because of ‘right-wing election deniers’ but because of your actions to thwart the legitimate efforts of our organization to assist with the obviously flawed current system of identifying and removing ineligible voters from the Active voter rolls,” Muth wrote.
As The Federalist previously reported, the Nevada-based Citizen Outreach Foundation (COF) aims to ensure accuracy within the state’s voter rolls through its Pigpen Project, which involves consultation with local election officials to identify individuals who are no longer eligible to remain on the Silver State’s voter registration lists. Muth previously told The Federalist that these local officials “have been extremely cooperative and helpful” in showing the group the correct procedures for filing challenges.
The Situation
In May, the Citizen Outreach Foundation filed roughly a dozen “test” challenges in Clark County under a provision of Nevada law known as Section 547 using data from the secretary of
