The Nevada GOP, the Republican National Committee, and a Clark County voter are joining the Trump campaign’s lawsuit against Aguilar, the Democratic National Committee, and the Nevada Democratic Party.
The lawsuit is a dispute to former Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s review of the Nevada Republican Party’s alleged evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. In 2021, Cegavske said she did not 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 arguing that Cegavske’s findings were based on a faulty interpretation of prior Supreme Court cases.
It also cited Harvard University’s Cooperative Election Study, which indicated that Nevada’s 4% of noncitizen respondents who claimed to be registered to vote is higher than the national average of roughly 2.5%.
Additionally, the campaign pointed to court public records showing that 8% of one district court’s jury pool claimed disqualification because they were noncitizens. The GOP used the data as evidence in its lawsuit that noncitizens have made it into voter rolls, as juries are compiled in part through voter registration lists.
Aguilar pushed back against the GOP’s claims that he is “failing in his list maintenance and investigatory duties to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered and voting in Nevada elections.”
