(McKenna Ross | Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Nevada canceled more than 162,000 voter registrations and inactivated almost 38,000 others in a post-general election voter roll cleanup, the Secretary of State’s office reported Monday. . . .
Chuck Muth, president of the conservative and libertarian advocacy group Citizen Outreach, said the inactive list did not show the full extent of what should be done to purge the rolls of fraudulent voters.
He said he hoped the state would not define the “personal knowledge” needed to make challenges, as is proposed in the Secretary of State Office’s omnibus election bill, Assembly Bill 534.
That means “firsthand knowledge through experience or observation of the facts upon each ground that the challenge is based,” according to the bill text. “The term does not include knowledge obtained from a third party, including, without limitation, information obtained from the review of data in a database or other compilation of information.”
Muth’s argues the definition could cut challengers out of the challenging process because of their identification process, which relies on third-party information like databases and the new tenants of a voter’s old address.
“The secretary does not want citizens involved in cleaning up voting rolls,” he said.