Republicans are accusing Nevada of voter roll maintenance that is so lax that the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age adults in certain counties, although the state says the GOP’s calculations are based on unreliable data.

Among the key takeaways: Ford and Yeager reported the highest aggregate value of trips provided to them, followed by Republican Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, whose travels to Greece, Germany, Mexico and some U.S. destinations came with $15,000 worth of covered costs.

Democrats [Attorney General Aaron] Ford and [Secretary of State Cisco] Aguilar would tell you they’re not just talking a good game, but are bringing a strategy into the struggle to protect and maintain fair elections.

Before the Clark County grand jury ultimately decided to indict the six Nevada Republicans who cast false electoral votes for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, they heard witness testimony from a top Nevada elections official, a Postal Service inspector and one of campaign lawyers about how the fake elector scheme unfolded.

Whether history remembers the Nevada attorney general’s investigation of the state GOP’s attempted use of a slate of false electors in 2020 as a righteous cause or a political footnote, you must admit that it’s overdue.

Jim Jordan, a conservative hardliner who tried to help overthrow the 2020 presidential election in Nevada, received 200 votes in a vote taken Tuesday morning — falling 17 votes short of the majority needed to win. All Democrats and 20 Republicans voted against him.

For reasons known only to its members, the state party still celebrates the willing stooges who participated in Trump’s desperate and despicable scheme by signing false elector certificates claiming he won the election.

Gov. Joe Lombardo canceled implementing a massive state IT project, leaving the state with nothing to show after spending more than $100 million on an effort to replace Nevada’s ancient software system.

The comments came as part of a sweeping 90-minute discussion with Nevada Independent CEO Jon Ralston in Las Vegas, in an interview that ranged from the governor’s new $11 billion budget to plans to critical comments Lombardo made over the state’s universal mail-in elections.

“I just wanted to, to the extent that we can, strengthen the rule against it, the penalty for it, make sure it never happens again, basically make it even more illegal than it was before,” Daly, who represents a Sparks-area district, told The Nevada Independent.

The son of a union electrician and the grandson of a union leader, Aguilar said that family history shapes and inspires him as he takes on a job that oversees the Silver State’s elections.

New text exchanges between self-proclaimed Nevada electors Jim DeGraffenreid and Shawn Meehan released by the January 6 Committee show their deteriorating belief in the Trump campaign to successfully challenge the results of the 2020 election, frustration with elected Republicans in Nevada, and fears over the optics of the insurrection.

“It's on our radar,” Ford told The Nevada Independent Tuesday. “I know it's unsatisfactory, relative to what people want to hear, but again … I can't be persuaded to speak on something that could potentially jeopardize anything that we are doing.”

The very legality of the actual electors’ votes hinged, in part, on Cegavske’s presence at the ceremony. The Republicans who participated in the illegitimate ceremony without her, but apparently discussed trying to get her to join in, are under federal investigation.

The January 6 Committee released transcripts of its interviews with Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid about their roles in a 2020 fake elector scheme, demonstrating how Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with the state GOP in an attempt to claim decisive electoral votes for Trump.

The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 (ECRA) – the rare bill likely to pass because it already has the support of more than 10 Republicans – would revise election law to close loopholes that Trump and his allies attempted to exploit to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In the days after media outlets called the race for secretary of state in his favor, Democrat Cisco Aguilar has often attributed his win to a single issue: Small-”d” democracy was on the ballot. 

However, Cegavske’s letter to Kampf, written by Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Mark Wlaschin, raised multiple concerns about the proposed process, primarily regarding the possibility of tampering by those counting votes.

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske told Nye County’s top election administrator to cease hand counting ballots immediately on Thursday evening.

In an August 2021 email to an Elko County deputy district attorney, Steninger laid out the group’s interest in having “the rural counties … announce plans to shift to paper ballots,” which they believed would make the rest of the state “obliged to follow suit.”