By Ben Johnson
The Washington Stand
One of the most consequential states in the 2024 presidential election has enacted a combination of liberal laws and lawless practices that virtually guarantee voter fraud will take place in November, an election expert has revealed. And, he says, some state officials and well-funded liberal pressure organizations are fighting attempts to ensure election integrity.
Out of concerns that many voters would likely die by contracting COVID-19 at polling places during the 2020 election, the swing state of Nevada delivered mail-in ballots to every registered voter’s home. In 2021, then-Governor Steve Sisolak (D) signed a bill enshrining the temporary, fear-based policy into state law. However, election officials have ignored legal statutes requiring them to assure the voting rolls are accurate by attesting registered voters actually live at the address on file.
As a result, “thousands of ballots get automatically mailed in Nevada to places like Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club, casinos, bars, head shops where they sell [drug] paraphernalia,” J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department employee overseeing voting rights and practices, told former Congressman Jody Hice on “Washington Watch.” Adams, now a federal civil rights official and president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), revealed that his organization verified dozens of cases where people had successfully registered to vote from businesses, federal buildings, even vacant lots — in two counties alone.
Legal documents filed by PILF found 128 clearly inaccurate voters registered in Clark and Washoe counties, which contain Las Vegas and Reno, respectively. The Writ of Mandamus in Clark County contains 90 photos of addresses soon to receive a ballot, and PILF documented 48 election-distorting voter registrations in Reno.
Alleged voters’ addresses include a Walgreens pharmacy, Binion’s Gambling Hall, a sustainable furniture company, multiple strip malls and law firms, Harry Reid International Airport, and a number of Masonic lodges/temples.
One ballot will go to a USDA Service Center, making erroneous voter addresses a public-private partnership.
Following up on a similar undertaking in October 2020, in April 2024 a PILF staffer traveled to numerous addresses to verify on video that the registered voter did not live at the address. She discovered one individual, William Sitton, had died a year earlier — as an incarcerated prisoner apparently attempting to vote from jail, according to a law enforcement officer. Other state voter registration forms led to a 7-Eleven, vacant lots and buildings, a Snappy’s Burgers location, and Momo Sushi & Grill.
At one point, the PILF employee asked for a supposed resident through a Sonic drive thru window. “He doesn’t live here? Thanks. We’ll just take the milkshakes, then,” she says.
Another ballot will be mailed to Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club. “We didn’t go into the strip clubs, but we stood outside and took video,” noted Adams.
“Apartment complexes are going to have piles of ballots in the lobby,” said Adams. “Some dead people will get them. It’s the worst way to run an election.”
It’s also illegal, he contends in court. Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) requires that voter lists be “regularly maintained to ensure the integrity of the registration process and the election process.” PILF requested a review of the list under NRS 293.535 and NRS 293.547.
Instead of complying, Adams said, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) called PILF to say he wanted to intervene, or join, the case — on the other side. “We thought they wanted to intervene on our side, because isn’t it his job as the Secretary of State to keep the voter rolls clean?” Instead, the office “told us he wanted to intervene to preserve the broken status quo, that he wanted to get involved in the case, to defend the messed-up system,” said Adams. “It is not a good state of affairs.”
Perhaps unlike Aguilar, blue-collar workers in the PILF video appear dumbfounded by voters’ inaccurate registration addresses. When PILF asks if a voter lives at the establishment, the employee asked incredulously, “At the bar?” Again at Red Dragon Gaming and Spirits in North Las Vegas, an African-American woman responds as though the interview does not understand, “This is a — a casino.”
The stakes could scarcely be higher. Election observers agree the 2024 presidential election will likely come down to seven key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Together, they account for 93 of the 270 electoral votes either candidate needs to win the race.
The 2020 presidential race in Nevada came down to 2.4% of the vote. Nevada represents the smallest swing state, with six electoral votes. “It’s a shame they get any electoral votes with a system that’s messed up,” said Adams.
Dubious voter registration practices take on exponentially greater significance when multiplied across numerous states — a state of affairs of PILF has labored to expose — including Nevada’s neighboring, dark-blue state of California. A report about California which PILF released last year found that “in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding, meaning election officials do not know what happened to them.” The report credited this to Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signing AB 37, which required the state to send mail-in ballots to every registered voter in the state.
Similar concerns recur in all seven swing states, whether Republican- or Democrat-run. “Georgia, where I’m from, has had major problems — and still does in many regards — on the voter rolls being kept accurately,” said Hice, the author of the new book “Sacred Trust: Election Integrity and the Will of the People.” He added that “Wisconsin has so many places” with similarly fraudulently registered voters “that this is a massive issue.” PILF is currently suing the state of Pennsylvania before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Yet the importance of voter fraud extends beyond the presidential election to every race statewide. The 2022 Senate race saw liberal Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto defeat Adam Laxalt, the scion of a proud conservative family, by roughly 8,000 votes.
The amount of fraud allowed by this instance alone could sway numerous elections. PILF’s Tied Election Database found 589 elections have ended in a tie over the last 20 years.
“One vote can make a difference,” said Adams, especially when “you have corrupted voter rolls, automatic mail-in voting to commercial addresses, non-citizen voting,” and other irregularities.
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database records 14 documented incidents of election fraud in 2024, during relatively uneventful primaries and long before the general election: 10 of the 14 incidents involved the use of absentee ballots. The verified accounts include officials attempting to bribe voters and obtain absentee ballots, convicts voting despite being ineligible, multiple mail-in ballots being tampered with, and an individual who was offered a government job for submitting a fraudulent mail-in ballot, by MD Hossain Morshed, a former Democratic councilman in the gambling mecca of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Not only do left-wing politicians open up the ballot box to election fraud, but well-heeled, tax-exempt, “nonpartisan” groups want to make sure they stay that way, said Adams. “Progressive 501(c)3 groups funded by donors, try to intervene in our case to stop the voter roll cleanup, because they like it. … These progressive groups are trying to preserve the status quo, trying to make sure that the election stays broken,” Adams told Hice.
Nevada’s current governor, Joe Lombardo (R), has expressed his interest in reforming the system, at least requiring that mail-in ballots be received by election night. “Nevada created universal mail-in ballots as a response to COVID. With the pandemic behind us, this expensive process is simply unnecessary,” he said.
Until states repeal the unnecessary “emergency” system, Adams said this should encourage U.S. citizens to vote and take action to make sure their votes count — and fraudulent votes do not. “If you are getting mail-in election mail from someone who used to live in your house, call the election office and get that off the rolls before it gets exploited. If you move to another state, change your address and your election address. Better yet, if you can volunteer to work the polls on Election Day … they always need volunteers to work at a precinct.”
“The line that just came to me is, ‘Fight, fight, fight!’” said Adams, quoting former President Donald Trump after his near-assassination on July 13.
“It’s going to be a better election than it was in 2020,” Adams told “Washington Watch” viewers. “So, don’t think your vote’s not going to count. It’s going to count. And you need to turn out.”
“If you don’t turn out, then you can just watch this country fall to pieces,” said Adams.
“We have to vote,” agreed Hice. “We have to pray, vote, and stand.”
Originally published at The Washington Stand!
