Nevada ACLU requests probe into alleged partisan hand-count

By GABE STERN
Associated Press/Report for America

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The ACLU of Nevada has asked the state’s secretary of state to investigate what it called a “coordinated partisan election administration effort” during a rural county’s hand-count of mail-in ballots that was shut down last week. The ACLU said Wednesday a hand-count volunteer openly carrying a firearm removed an ACLU observer from a hand-count tally room last week. It said it recently discovered the armed volunteer was vice chair of the Nye County GOP Central Committee. The ACLU said the situation “poses questions” surrounding the Nye County interim clerk’s delegation of authority to partisan officials to remove observers, particularly during a hand-count process that deals with ballot tabulations.