Debbie Miller protests during a rally against Assembly Bill 4 at the Sawyer State Building Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. The bill, signed by governor Steve Sisolak on Monday, will expand mail-in ballot provisions but it does not do away with in-person voting locations.
Published Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 | 9:05 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 | 11:15 p.m.
A few hundred people in Las Vegas chanted “open up the polls” and “Recall Sisolak” Tuesday as they held signs for President Donald Trump and protested a law signed this week by Gov. Steve Sisolak to mail ballots to all of the state’s active voters ahead of the November election.
The law has drawn criticism from Republicans, most prominently by President Donald Trump, whose reelection campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to block the law.
The Nevada Republican Party on Tuesday organized the protest outside a state government building in Las Vegas. The party planned similar demonstrations elsewhere Tuesday, including protests in Carson City and Reno.
Nevada is now among eight states that plan to automatically send voters mail ballots this November amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump said at a Monday news conference at the White House that Nevada's plan was “a disgrace."
He took aim at a provision that expands who can collect and return ballots, which he said enabled individuals to “take thousands of ballots, put them together and just dump them down on somebody’s desk after a certain period of time.”
He also targeted the provision that allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to a week later could create a circumstance where the race couldn’t be called in a timely manner.
“You’ll never know who won that state,” he said.
There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud through mail-in voting and election security experts say voter fraud is rare in all forms of balloting, including voting by mail.
