published a report<\/a> last week on voter integrity projects around the country that are focused on cleaning up the voter rolls.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s an excerpt related to Nevada – and how the GOP is actually hurting clean-up efforts here\u2026<\/p>\n
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When Scott Hoen ran to be Carson City, Nevada\u2019s chief election official two years ago, he campaigned on \u201celection integrity,\u201d promising to make sure voter registration lists were accurate.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, he believed that too many of his fellow Republicans were convinced that there was widespread voter fraud. By keeping voter rolls current, Hoen thought he could restore voter trust in his county\u2019s election system.<\/em><\/p>\nHe won. And every day since he took office, he and his staff have tried to keep that focus, using data from all levels of government to remove voters who have moved or died from the active voter list.<\/em><\/p>\nHoen was surprised, then, to be named in a lawsuit the Republican National Committee and the Nevada Republican Party filed last month against him, four other Nevada county clerks and the secretary of state. <\/em><\/p>\nThe lawsuit alleges that five localities had \u201cinordinately high\u201d voter registration rates, and that the state is violating federal law by not having what are known as \u201cclean\u201d voter rolls.<\/em><\/p>\nHoen said the lawsuit is \u201cunfortunate\u201d and \u201ca distraction\u201d in a pivotal election year. The state responded by saying the data Republicans used in the lawsuit are \u201chighly flawed\u201d and that the RNC\u2019s analysis was like \u201ccomparing apples to orangutans.\u201d \u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWho knows where they got their numbers. But they didn\u2019t consult me or ask me, or no one\u2019s talked to me about what we do with voter roll maintenance,\u201d Hoen said of the lawsuit in an interview with Stateline. \u201cWe do everything we can, per the law, to keep our voter rolls as plain as possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n* * *<\/p>\n
The Pigpen Project has gotten nothing but help and assistance from Mr. Hoen in our efforts to clean up the voter rolls. Whenever we\u2019ve had questions or needed advice, he\u2019s been there for us.<\/p>\n
The GOP might try actually communicating with him and his office before flying off the handle.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, here\u2019s a quick update on the Pigpen Project\u2019s efforts\u2026<\/p>\n
\n- Since last September, volunteers have identified and reported 954 deceased voters using public obituaries as their source. Some had remained on the voter rolls for years after their death.\u00a0 To date, 698 have been permanently removed.\u00a0 The remaining 69 are still being reviewed for confirmation.<\/li>\n
- Our data research has also identified 7,078 registered Nevada voters who have submitted a change of address to the post office and have since re-registered in a different state in which we have access to voter registration information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We\u2019ve confirmed these voters have the same first, middle, and last names, as well as the same date\/year of birth.\u00a0 We\u2019ve submitted a test list of those voters to the Nevada Secretary of State\u2019s office to learn exactly what the processes and procedures are at the state level for requesting their removal.<\/p>\n
I had a meeting with the SOS office on Tuesday.\u00a0 They\u2019re waiting on direction from the Attorney General\u2019s office to make sure everything we\u2019re doing complies with all the various state and federal laws related to these matters.<\/p>\n
If we all can figure a way to process these reports without physically sending volunteers door-to-door, we\u2019ll be able to remove thousands of ineligible voters at a time instead of dozens.<\/p>\n
Keep your fingers crossed\u2026and THANK YOU<\/u> for your support of our efforts!<\/p>\n
FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIf even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in the process.\u201d – U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Pigpen Project is a project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) grassroots organization founded in 1992.\u00a0 Donations are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Chuck Muth) \u2013Matt Vasilogambros of Stateline.org published a report last week on voter integrity projects around the country that are focused on cleaning up the voter rolls. Here\u2019s an excerpt related to Nevada – and how the GOP is actually hurting clean-up efforts here\u2026 * * * When Scott Hoen ran to be Carson City, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}