Election deniers win the day with Nevada county exempted from rule for hand-counting ballots – By Michael Nye (Nevada Current) / Aug 27, 2022
The Secretary of State’s office approved a temporary regulation on hand-count paper ballots, a proposal that stemmed from unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, that was amended based on feedback from election deniers and exempts Nye County from complying.
Because Nye County plans on using a process with hand-counting and mechanical tabulation, “in that case the regulations are recommended but not required,” Jennifer Russell, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, confirmed via email.
Sadmira Ramic, a voting rights attorney with the ACLU of Nevada, said that allowing hand-counting is a “slippery slope that will have consequences for the state” that includes hindering the certification of election results.
“Our primary concern is the use of hand-counting in general,” Ramic said. “The Secretary of State’s office, by passing these regulations, is condoning the use of hand counting while ignoring the urgency of the issues such procedures would produce. The counties that are doing this are solely doing this based on false allegations of election fraud during the 2020 election.”
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