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The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit in Nevada alleging that Clark County registrar Joe Gloria decided to keep early voting locations open “two hours beyond the designated closing time” in an attempt to “skew the vote unlawfully in favor of Democratic candidates” in an area with larger minority voting precincts.
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The suit, filed Monday night by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s lawyers, “asked the court to intervene and make sure that the ballots and voting machines involved in the Nov. 4th voting events not be commingled with ballots and voting machines that were not involved in the alleged illegal voting,” CBS News reported.
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The issue was raised over the weekend at a Trump rally by Nevada’s Republican Party chairman Michael McDonald, who alleged that the early voting locations in question were left open so a “certain group” could vote.
“Last night, in Clark County, they kept a poll open ’til 10 o’clock at night so a certain group could vote. The polls are supposed to close at 7. This was kept open until 10. Yeah, you feel free right now? You think this is a free and easy election? That’s why it’s important,” he said.
Trump himself mentioned this later on in the day and commented as follows:
It’s being reported that certain key Democratic polling locations in Clark County were kept open for hours and hours beyond closing time to bus and bring Democratic voters in. Folks, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged system and we’re going to beat it. We’re going to beat it.
The “we’re going to beat it” pledge has appeared in the form of an attempted lawsuit.
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Officials would say that the polls were kept open to accommodate people who had been waiting in line, and there were apparently many.
But during a hearing on Tuesday, Judge Gloria Sturman threw out the lawsuit.
Nevada judge did not have time for Trump's lawsuit complaining that too many brown people voted. #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/qovFWC0iqe
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) November 8, 2016
“I am not going to issue any order,” she said. “I am not going to expose people doing their civic duty ridicule and harassment.”
“That’s offensive to me, because it seems to me to go against the principle that the vote is secret,” the judge continued. “It’s disturbing to me that some of these individuals might be harassed.”
