WORLD Trump campaign's Nevada legal effort is over

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Trump campaign's Nevada legal effort is over

AP

07:40, November 06, 2020

A legal effort in Nevada by US President Donald Trump's campaign and state Republicans to try to stop the count of mail ballots in Las Vegas is over.

A man leaves the polling place where about 100 mostly masked northern Nevadans were waiting to vote in person at Reed High School in Sparks about two hours before the polls closed Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in the western battleground state. (Photo: AP)

A document submitted in an appeal pending before the state Supreme Court says the campaign, state GOP, Democrats and attorneys for the state have reached a settlement requiring Clark County election officials to supply “additional observation access” at a ballot processing facility in Las Vegas.

The state high court declined on Election Day to stop the count based on an appeal of a state judge’s decision not to stop processing mail ballots in Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County -- a Democratic stronghold in an otherwise red GOP state.

In an order released Monday, Judge James Wilson Jr. in Carson City said he found neither the state nor Clark County had done anything to give one vote preference over another.

Nevada Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to suppress voting in the state’s most diverse area.

Trump campaign representatives said Thursday that they intended to file another complaint in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to try to stop the counting of what state campaign co-chair Adam Laxalt called “improper votes.” That lawsuit was not immediately filed.


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