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Story · November 8, 2022

Trump Campaign’s Nevada Voting Challenge Was Turned Back the Same Day

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From the November 8, 2022 edition

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Correction: The Trump campaign filed its Nevada early-voting lawsuit and lost its emergency request on November 8, 2016. The court did not decide the broader election dispute that day.

On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign went to court in Nevada over early voting at four Clark County sites. The filing focused on a narrow request: preserve ballots, machines, and records connected to the disputed voting period, rather than halt the election process itself.

The campaign said voters were allowed to stay in line after the scheduled close of those sites and argued that the extended hours were improper. Its complaint also sought to separate and safeguard materials tied to the period in question while the court reviewed what had happened.

Clark County officials said the records the campaign wanted preserved were already being kept under state law. At a same-day hearing, District Judge Gloria Sturman denied the requested relief. The result left the campaign without the emergency order it sought and narrowed the episode to what the record shows: a fast Nevada election challenge that was rejected on the day it was filed.

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