A lawsuit filed in district court on Tuesday, June 25, alleges widespread inaccuracies in voter registration addresses across Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and a significant portion of the state’s registered voters.
The legal action brought by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) and Nevada voters Frederick H. Kraus and Joey Paulos challenges registrar Lorena Portillo for failing to ensure the accuracy of voter rolls. According to J. Christian Adams, president of the PILF, the lawsuit contends that individuals are registered to vote from highly unconventional addresses such as strip clubs, casinos, gas stations, and industrial parks where it seems implausible for anyone to reside.
Examples cited include Larry Flynt’s Hustler Erotic Ultra Club, various industrial sites, a sushi restaurant, a car care center, a manufacturer of personal lubricants, and historic Binion’s Gambling Hall.
The lawsuit emphasizes concerns about the impact of these irregularities on election integrity, particularly noting the significant increase in mail-in voting since the onset of the pandemic. While polling places remain available statewide, ballots got mailed to voters at their alleged registered addresses.
The PILF claims to have alerted Clark County about address irregularities since the 2020 election and points to instances from the 2022 midterms where issues with addresses may have influenced voting outcomes. In the 2020 election, approximately 95,556 ballots were sent to undeliverable or “bad” mailing addresses statewide, with 69,698 in Clark County alone, representing five percent of the state’s active voter roll.
The lawsuit seeks court intervention to compel Nevada election officials to investigate and rectify any improper commercial addresses on the voter rolls before the 2024 election, raising concerns that such establishments could receive mail-in ballots.
PILF describes itself as the nation’s only law firm focused entirely on election integrity. It recently filed similar lawsuits in other jurisdictions, including against interim voter registrar Carrie-Ann Burgess in Washoe County.
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