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Nevada Supreme Court Throws Out GOP’s Last Ditch Effort to Disrupt Mail-In Ballot Counting

The GOP and Trump campaign asked the court to stop poll workers from manually tabulating defective ballots that cannot be electronically processed.

In a ruling made just over an hour before polls closed, Nevada’s Supreme Court shot down another attempt by the Trump campaign and state GOP to disrupt ballot counting. The Republicans had filed an emergency appeal earlier Tuesday to a Nevada judge’s ruling from Monday that poll workers in Clark County could keep processing mail-in ballots using authentication software, BuzzFeed News’ Zoe Tillman reported. Monday’s ruling shot down a GOP request to have cameras record ballot-counting. The judge found no evidence to suggest there was improper counting or that the electronic software used to authenticate ballots was flawed. The last-ditch motion on Tuesday argued that defective ballots could be tampered with if they couldn’t be fed through a tabulation machine and had to instead be manually tabulated by poll staff. But the Supreme Court ruled that the appeal “lacked evidentiary support.” Clark County is home to Las Vegas and is heavily Democratic.