After Mail-In Midterm Mess, Gov. Lombardo Backs Bill To Restore Integrity To Nevada’s Election System

Following the expansion of mail-in election by his Democrat predecessor, which completely threw Nevada’s elections’s into chaos, Republican Gov. Regulations to maintain the land electoral’s system to integrity is being supported by Lombardo, Joe.

Lombardo introduced SB 405, which may change Nevada’s unsupervised’s mail-in ballot system and implement Identification of the vote needs, next year. According to the bill, voters would need to present” proof of identity ,” which would include” a document or identity card” issued by Nevada, the United States, or a federally recognized Indian tribe ,” in order to cast their ballots in person. Residents who cast their ballots by mail would be required to write their” driver’s license’s number or identification card number” or the” last four digits of ] their ] social security number.”

Dynamic registered voters are never required to provide recognition, according to current state law. Poll people” compare names from voters as they cast a vote to the touch on register from registration” in its place. Citizens in need of a state-issued Card form would be able to get one from the Nevada DMV for free.

People are required to have a valid form of identification in order to travel, drive, buy drinking, or smoke cigarettes, but not to participate in elections. Lombardo declared during his State of the State name earlier this year that this is unrealistic. Nevadans have shown strong support for voting Card requirements in current voting.

Some modifications made to SB 405 include protection for Nevada’s extensive’s and unsupervised mail-in ballot system. The state, which was then controlled by Democrats,” originally permitted a temporary expansion of vote-by-mail during the 2020 general election over coronavirus concerns ,” according to Victoria Marshall of The Federalist, but” made it the permanent law of the land” in 2021 by” requiring election officials to send out mail-in ballots to all the state’s registered’s voters.”

SB 405 would not only repeal Nevada’s automatic vote-by-mail system by requiring voters to request their mail-in ballots, it would also mandate that such ballots be received by county clerks before polls close on Election Day in order to be counted. State law currently allows mail-in ballots to be “postmarked by Election Day and … arrive at an elections office up to four days later to be counted,” according to a local news outlet.

The proposed card may also impose restrictions on poll snatching, a practice whereby voters’ mail-in ballots are collected by third parties. According to SB 405, it is against the law for anyone other than the voter or a woman with voter approval to yield message ballots. A person who has the authority to transfer a voter ballot’s must, under penalty of perjury, certify that he has authority to do so and turn in an official report to the secretary of state that lists” each voting on whose behalf the individual returned the mail ballot.” Additionally, it would be against the law for said people to cast more than 30 vote per vote.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation ( PILF ) released a report detailing the disastrous failure of Nevada’s automatic’s vote-by-mail system in the 2022 midterms the same week SB 405 was introduced. Information from the Nevada secretary of state position show that 1.2 million ballots were always returned to be counted, 8, 036 were rejected by election leaders, and 95, 556 were sent to names that were not deliverable.

For approach, Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Adam Laxalt by 7, 928 vote, down from the 8, 036 votes that election officials rejected.

Despite being important, Democrats in Nevada, who control both chambers of the state legislature, are likely to oppose Lombardo’s efforts’s to improve the integrity of state elections. Following the introduction of SB 405, Democrat Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno accused Lombardo of” rolling up voting right” and” emboldening vote denialists.”