Bombshell Report: Pigpen Project PROVES Nevada Voter Rolls Remain Filthy
(Chuck Muth) – It was never my intent or desire to publicly embarrass Nevada Secretary of State (SOS) Cisco Aguilar. But he asked for it. So – in the immortal words of Mills Lane in Celebrity Death Match – “Let’s get it on!”
For MONTHS we asked Secretary Aguilar for guidance and direction in our effort to help the county clerks/registrars clean up Nevada’s voter rolls. Instead, not only did he blow us off, he actively worked behind our backs to thwart our efforts.
But before I go any further, riddle me this, Batman: What’s inside all these envelopes?
Now, before giving you the answer, let me set the table…
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) is crystal clear in stating that one of its primary purposes is “to ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained.”
And while the SOS has implemented a process for that purpose – “Routine List Maintenance” (RLM) – the system is deeply flawed and has missed thousands upon thousands of voters who have moved out of state or no longer live at the address where they are registered.
Using official government data – the voter registration list from the Nevada SOS and the National Change of Address (NCOA) list from the United States Postal Service (USPS) – the Pigpen Project identified voters who are on the Nevada voter list but have filed a notice with the post office that they’ve moved.
And we began submitting that information to the county clerks/registrars last winter under the “list maintenance” provision in NRS (Nevada Revised Statutes).
But instead of processing our list maintenance requests, Secretary Aguilar issued a private memo to the clerks/registrars last March advising them NOT to accept them. Instead, he advised them to advise us that we should use the “challenge” process.
After learning about this private memo many weeks later, we did just that.
On July 29, 2024, we submitted to the county clerks/registrars almost 4,000 challenges of voters who filed a change-of-address with the post office AND re-registered in another state.
Some of the clerks processed them; others didn’t.
But a month later, after we filed public records requests asking if the challenges had been processed, the SOS issued another private directive – which, again, he didn’t even extend the courtesy of copying us – to the clerks/registrars advising them to REJECT our challenges.
And because of that memo, even the clerks who had processed our original challenges refused to accept and process any others.
Well, that led to our lawsuits asking the court to instruct the clerks/registrars to follow the law and send out the confirmation letters to the challenged voters asking them to verify their eligibility to vote in Nevada on November 5th.
Ultimately, we withdrew those lawsuits – but not for the reasons the opponents are claiming.
In fact, their objections were all over technical matters that may or may not have held up in court. It was all dotted “i” and crossed “t” kind of stuff and a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo.
In any event, the real question is this: Are Nevada’s voter registration rolls accurate, or aren’t they?
Not surprisingly, our opponents never address this question. Because they can’t. Because they’re not.
As I’ve said before, the extent of my legal expertise comes from Tom Cruise in the movie A Few Good Men: It doesn’t matter what I believe; only what I can PROVE.
So here’s what we did (thanks to your donations!)…
Knowing the challenges we filed weren’t going to be acted upon thanks to Secretary Aguilar’s directive to the clerks/registrars to reject them, we created our own “confirmation letter” and mailed it to a test group that was pulled from the exact same list of challenges we had filed previously.
Uh-oh.
In the letter, we advised the voter that “it appears your Nevada voter registration information might be incorrect,” and included a copy of the official “Request for Removal of Name from Voting Records” form for them to fill out if, in fact, they moved and were no longer eligible to vote in Nevada.
But having been burned by Secretary Aguilar so many times before, we included a self-addressed envelope for them to return their forms to US instead of the clerks/registrars.
So, that photo at the beginning of this report in the pop quiz?
Yeah, inside every one of those envelopes is a signed notice that the voter moved and wanted to be removed from Nevada’s voter rolls.
And that pile is only ONE DAY of returns – well over 300!
Here’s an example of one of them (with the voter’s name/address redacted) which further demonstrates just how flawed Secretary Aguilar’s current “routine list maintenance” process is…
Note the frustrated note at the top: “How many times do I have to let you know I moved?”
Clearly, this voter has tried to get himself removed previously…with no luck.
Another wrote: “I filled this form out before & mailed it to the voting registrar.”
And yet, he’s still on the current voter registration list.
Another advised in a handwritten note that she had “moved out of state” – and had submitted a cancellation request previously – but still “received two mail-in ballots” at her previous address.
“My son, (name redacted), has moved overseas and will not be voting in Nevada,” another wrote. She added…
“I realize that you cannot remove his name from the Clark County records at my request, but I wanted there to be an accounting for him. If anyone votes under his name and old address, it would be a fraudulent vote. Just one of the reasons I am against voting by mail.”
Another listed the reason for the request for cancellation as: “Death.”
They even included a copy of the Death Certificate from Idaho showing the voter died OVER THREE YEARS AGO!
But this one was my favorite…
“Voter registration was cancelled and sent to the county clerk several weeks ago. Currently in jail in Idaho.”
Yet, Secretary Aguilar mailed him a ballot anyway.
Now here’s the thing about all of these requests for cancellation…
Section 8 of the NVRA specifically states that voters may be removed from the voter rolls – even during the 90-day “blackout” period – if the voter “confirms in writing that the registrant has changed residence to a place outside the registrar’s jurisdiction in which the registrant is registered.”
So had Secretary Aguilar not blocked the county clerks/registrars from processing our challenges when we filed them back in July, all of these people who submitted cancellation requests would have been removed from Nevada’s voter rolls BEFORE mail-in ballots were sent out.
Which would not only have reduced the potential for voting fraud but would have saved taxpayers a big chunk of change by not mailing ballots to people who are no longer eligible to vote in Nevada.
So here’s the bottom line…
1.) Even after Secretary Aguilar bragged about cleaning up the voter rolls through the “routine list maintenance” process in August, they remain filthy. Our test mailing PROVES it.
2.) The test mailing also PROVES our data and research is solid.
And if the county clerks/registrars – as well as the Secretary of State – would work with us, we can help them fulfill their NVRA obligation “to ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained.”
But instead, Secretary Aguilar – in his court objection to our lawsuits, issued through the Attorney General’s office – wrote the following…
“Nevada already has procedures for responsibly processing the data Petitioners rely on – executed by elections professionals who understand how to use it. Nevada law does not allow for vigilante list maintenance.”
“Vigilante”? Yeah, that one p*ssed me off.
Our Pigpen Project volunteers are not “vigilantes.” They’re concerned citizens trying to clean up the voter files and protect the integrity of our elections.
As for the notion that only “elections professionals” understand how to do this properly, it reminded me of this old saying…
“The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.”
The fact is, the Secretary of State isn’t doing his job. The voting rolls are still filled with people who shouldn’t be on them. Yet he refuses to let us help clean them up.
Instead, he’s worked behind our back to block our efforts and insults us as “vigilantes.”
When I started this project, I was committed to operating under the Dillon Rule (from the movie, Roadhouse): “Be nice…until it’s time to not be nice.”
I’ve tried to “be nice” and work with the Secretary of State. Instead, he’s basically told us to go screw ourselves and the horse we rode in on. So I guess it’s time to not be nice.
His choice; not mine.
As such, Secretary Aguilar might want to reflect on what Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of the movie classic, Tora! Tora! Tora! …
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
If the Secretary thought he could just blow us off and call us names and we’d go away, he terribly misjudged us. I’m a dog on a bone now.
In fact, we’ve already filed a new lawsuit. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this report…
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“When you have dirty voting rolls, you can have dirty elections.” – Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch
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