Democrat Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar’s failure to fulfill his legally mandated responsibility to clean Nevada’s voter rolls has potentially allowed “thousands” of noncitizens who data suggested voted in 2020 to remain registered to vote, a legal challenge filed Wednesday alleges.
Brought by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, the Nevada GOP, and a state resident, the lawsuit contends that Aguilar is “violating his statutory duties to ensure that only citizens are registered to vote.” Aguilar, the Democratic National Committee, and the Nevada Democratic Party are listed as defendants in the case.
“Nevada’s elections should be a reflection of its citizens’ voices, not influenced by non-citizens who have no legal standing to participate,” Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald said in a Thursday statement regarding the lawsuit. “Any efforts to allow non-citizens to vote threatens the very foundation of our elections and diminishes the power of lawful voters across our state.”
Plaintiffs contend the Nevada secretary of state “has not adopted any rules or regulations that provide for verification of a voter’s citizenship, or systematic removal of noncitizens from the voter rolls,” as state law requires. They further claim that data raised in litigation concerning the 2020 election in Nevada shows that “3,987 individuals listed in the DMV noncitizen file cast a ballot in the 2020 general election.”
That figure appears to stem from a sworn affidavit filed by former RNC Chief Data Officer Jesse Kamzol in a 2020 election case. As originally described in the Epoch Times, Kamzol “matched
