(Las Vegas, Nevada) – On Friday, Citizen Outreach Foundation (COF) – sponsor of the Pigpen Project to clean up the voter rolls in Nevada – filed a lawsuit against the clerk’s offices in two Nevada counties asking the court to instruct them to process challenges of suspected ineligible voters who have moved from the residence where they are registered.
Filed by The O’Mara Law Firm on behalf of COF, the Petition for Writ of Mandamus asks the First Judicial Court of the State of Nevada “to compel the Carson City and Storey County Clerks to perform their duties…by requiring the Clerks to notify the registrant of the challenge and take the necessary actions as required under NRS 293.530.”
“This was a last resort action we’ve worked hard to avoid,” said Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach Foundation. “We’ve done everything by the book and according to the law, but the Clerks got caught between a rock and a hard place.
“Some had been properly processing our challenges as required by law,” Muth continued, “until Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar issued a directive in August advising them to reject our challenges based on a bizarre reading of the statute.
“So we were left with no choice but to seek the court’s intervention,” he concluded.
Muth noted that some Clerks had been working cooperatively with his organization in processing the challenges until Secretary Aguilar’s memo, while others have been hiding behind the directive as an excuse to duck their responsibilities.
This is the first of what COF expects will be multiple lawsuits filed in other counties this week unless they reject the Secretary of State’s opinion and immediately begin processing the duly-filed challenges.
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The Pigpen Project is a project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) grassroots organization founded in 1992. Donations are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes.