The Trump campaign alleges that Nevada is not taking sufficient measures to prevent noncitizens from being included on voter registration rolls in a new lawsuit against the state’s top election official.
In court filings on Thursday, the Trump campaign argued that Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar should take additional measures to safeguard the integrity of the vote, the Washington Examiner reported.
The Nevada GOP, the Republican National Committee, and a Clark County voter have joined the Trump campaign’s lawsuit against Aguilar, the Democratic National Committee, and the Nevada Democratic Party, the report said.
The lawsuit challenges former Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s review of alleged voter fraud evidence presented by the Nevada Republican Party following the 2020 election. In 2021, Cegavske concluded she didn’t find “evidentiary support for the contention that the 2020 general election was plagued by widespread voter fraud.”
The Trump campaign and its allies are now contending that Cegavske’s findings were based on a flawed interpretation of previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the Examiner noted further.
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The lawsuit also cites Harvard University’s Cooperative Election Study, which revealed that 4% of noncitizen respondents in Nevada reported being registered to vote, compared to the national average of about 2.5%.