“When you have a leadership that decides to change the election laws less than 100 days out from the election, obviously there's an agenda put on the plate,” said Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald in an interview with The Dispatch. Nevada Republicans are up arms about the bill.
“There are various other reasons why somebody whose name may be on the voter roll today may not actually be an eligible voter to vote in that state.” “The error rate on voter rolls can swing pretty dramatically depending on where you are, because you have people who die, you have people that move, you have people that change addresses, leave the state,” he said. “The reason that that is problematic is voter rolls are notoriously not accurate,” Warrington told The Dispatch. Nevada’s new law means that before the election, the state will mail ballots to every voter on its voting rolls, including in those ballots prepaid postage for their return. “Democrats changed the rules of the game at the last minute to try and rig this election,” RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel alleged in a press release on Wednesday. “There’s more than enough money out there on both sides of the aisle,” said David Warrington, president of the Republican National Lawyers Association, in an interview with The Dispatch.īut the GOP fears that even its $20 million legal security blanket won’t be enough to stave off what Republicans claim to be bad faith attempts by Democrats to push laws that skew elections in their favor.
The legal fund is the last bucket: This is standard and applies to the Democratic National Committee as well. The Republican National Committee recently doubled its legal budget to $20 million -after an initial commitment of $10 million in February-to challenge statewide election laws.Īfter Congress raised the federal contribution limits in 2014, six-figure donations can “waterfall,” meaning that a single donation can be used to fill individual contribution buckets-operating funds, nominating convention, etc-one at a time until a donor reaches the combined maximum. This isn’t an empty threat: The GOP is currently litigating in 19 states over election laws that institute universal mail-in voting, no-excuse absentee ballots, and/or other election laws that Republicans believe jeopardize the integrity of our democratic system. Given his penchant for criticizing mail-in voting in recent months-and his recent suggestion that we should consider delaying the election over universal mail-in voting concerns-it came as no surprise that Trump immediately criticized the move. “During this global pandemic, I made a commitment that we’d do all we can to allow Nevadans to safely cast a ballot in the upcoming November election.” “Today, I signed AB 4, which ensures protections for Nevadans to vote safely at the November election during the pandemic,” Sisolak tweeted Monday. From California to New York, the Republican National Committee has been suing states for months now and even recently doubled its funding efforts to bolster new litigation efforts across the country.Īfter passing in Nevada’s Democratic-controlled state legislature, the bill was signed into law Monday afternoon by Democratic Gov. But Nevada’s universal vote-by-mail law is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. President Trump immediately threatened to sue Nevada-a key battleground state-in response to the order. This marks the eighth state-in addition to D.C.-to adopt universal, unsolicited mail-in voting for the election over pandemic concerns. On Monday, Nevada passed a bill that will send official ballots to all registered voters in the state before the presidential election this November.
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