The ACLU of Nevada has taken legal action to intervene in a lawsuit that aims to remove over 19,000 registered voters from Clark County’s voter rolls just weeks before the upcoming November election. The case, filed by Citizen Outreach Foundation, targets voters whose names appear in the National Change of Address (NCOA) database. The ACLU argues that this method is insufficient for challenging voter eligibility and claims it could lead to disenfranchisement.
This move marks the second intervention by the ACLU of Nevada within a week. Previously, they filed a similar motion in Washoe County after discovering that seven of their members’ voting eligibility was challenged as part of an effort to purge over 11,000 voters from the rolls there.
The nonprofit organization asserts that federal law prohibits systemic voter roll maintenance within 90 days of an election and emphasizes that reliance on NCOA data alone does not meet state or federal standards for challenging voter eligibility.
Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, stated: “This lawsuit is part of a coordinated nationwide attack on voting rights. Voters are being systemically targeted using flawed data from unreliable sources to purge them from voter rolls and prevent them from receiving their mail ballots.”
Sadmira Ramic, a voting rights attorney with the ACLU of Nevada, added: “These challenges are attempting to manipulate the legal system to disenfranchise voters through reckless and unwarranted actions which both go against state and federal law.”
A hearing date for this case has yet to be set.
