NV: GOP Voting Fears UnfoundedIn Nevada, where the state GOP had raised concerns about possible voter fraud if election officials didn’t take a more restrictive approach to voting — and where authorities had raided an ACORN office — everything seems to have gone smoothly.
Robert Walsh, a spokesman for Secretary of State Ross Miller, told the Associated Press: “We’ve been preparing for virtually every possibility we could imagine. But to this point, none of those scenarios have come to pass.
Walsh added that no formal complaints were filed with the state’s election office. And the AP confirms that state and federal court officials reported no election-related lawsuits.
Late last month, the chair of the state Republican party wrote to Miller, a Democrat, arguing that voters who had to correct discrepancies in their voter registration at the polls should be forced to cast provisional ballots.
Miller quickly responded with an interpretation of state law that rejected the GOP argument.
And earlier last month, state authorities raided the Las Vegas office of ACORN, as part of an investigation into voter registration fraud.