Nevada Dems advance mail-in voting bill and ballot harvesting in secret special session

This is absolutely outrageous. The dirty Dems know that Joe Biden can’t defeat President Trump in a fair fight. So they will attempt to cheat. Mail-in-voting and ballot harvesting will make cheating much easier. Team Trump needs to fight this with everything they have. Mass mail-in-voting must not be allowed under any circumstances.

Imagine if Republicans did this. Democrats are trying to upend this election. We still do not have results in NY! How does ballot harvesting make voters safe? It allows more room for fraud! The RNC will continue to challenge and fight this assualt on our Democracy. https://t.co/0rbjk2tk5f

— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) August 2, 2020

.@NVSOS has a plan to allow Nevadans to vote safely.

But that's not stopping Democrats from upending election rules to create more opportunities for fraud and allow ballot harvesting.

Call State Senate Majority Leader @Nicole4Nevada at 775-684-1475 and demand she pull #AB4!

— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) August 2, 2020

Assembly passes divisive mail-in voting bill as Nevada’s 32nd special session starts

By Reno Gazette Journal, August 2, 2020

Lawmakers advanced a divisive mail-in voting measure and revisited a tense clash over mining taxes during the frenetic first day of Nevada’s 32nd special legislative session.

Friday’s battle over Assembly Bill 4, the elections bill, comes after a mostly mail-in June primary election that saw some voters wait several hours at one of the “extremely limited” in-person polling places state officials kept open during the coronavirus outbreak.

AB 4 hopes to shorten those lines by guaranteeing every active registered voter receives a mail-in ballot in November’s general election and any future political contests conducted under a statewide emergency declaration.

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It would also permit some of those voters, namely the elderly and those with physical disabilities, to request that someone else fill out and hand in their ballot, a practice Republicans repeatedly decried as illegal “ballot harvesting.”

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has long planned a return to in-person voting after getting mixed reviews of the state’s first vote-by-mail election.

Nevada’s lone Republican statewide officeholder on Friday confirmed she intended to stick to that approach despite a statewide spike in virus cases, explaining she would need a budget bump of up to $5 million to pay for a second all-mail election.

But Democrats, seen as the primary beneficiary of mail-in elections, can override Cegavske under a controversial bill provision that lets the governor, not the state’s top election official, decide how polling places run in an emergency.

The measure passed out of the Democrat-led Assembly on a strict party-line vote after several hours of searing public testimony, much of which was repeated in a late-night Senate hearing that concluded without a binding vote on the measure.