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NV-Sen: Emails Expose Laxalt (R) Pushed Sham 2020 Election Audit Right After Launching Senate Bid [1]
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Date: 2022-08-30
This fucking guy:
x As late as last September, according to Douglas County Clerk-Treasurer Amy Bregans, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt urged her to pursue an audit of the 2020 presidential election results. @jacobsolisnv reports:
https://t.co/1mB7mxD7Sh — Nevada Independent (@TheNVIndy) August 30, 2022
As late as last September, former attorney general and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt had urged a rural county election official to pursue an audit of the 2020 presidential election results, according to an email from that election official sent at the time.
Douglas County Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans told a top state elections official in a September 2021 email that Laxalt had approached her during a local event with a request for the county to audit ballot signatures, saying that “he felt that Douglas County should take the lead.” The email was first obtained in February by the left-leaning watchdog group American Oversight.
Burgans recounted telling Laxalt that the signatures could not be released under state law. Laxalt then, per the email, said he had not heard of such a provision, and declined an offer by Burgans to later receive the relevant statute over email.
“More than anything, I am just letting you know due to the amount of misinformation that is out there,” Burgans told Deputy Secretary of State Mark Wlaschin. “I am sure you are aware of it, but I was baffled as to why he wouldn’t want me to educate him on election laws, especially since he was the former Attorney General!!! [emphasis, Burgans] I believe next year ALL candidates will be running on ‘election integrity’ as a platform without a basic understanding of what the law requires.”
She then ended her email: “And so it begins…”
Though Biden won Nevada by 2.4 percentage points, Trump won all of Nevada’s rural counties, including Douglas County — part of the “quad-county” cluster of rural counties nearest Washoe — where voters broke for Trump nearly 2-to-1, or a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
Laxalt, who served one term as Nevada’s attorney general before losing a bid for governor in 2018, is now running as the Republican nominee for Senate against incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. Expected to be among the closest contests in the country this year, the race could be the “51st” seat that decides control of the Senate.
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