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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:11 AM Aug 2020

The Madness of King Donald of Orange: "Trump pledges lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada"

President Donald Trump plans to sue to stop Nevada from issuing mailed ballots to all active voters, he announced at a White House briefing on Monday.

Trump had already threatened legal action earlier in the day, suggesting mailed ballots would make it impossible for Republicans to win there in the November general election. Nevada state lawmakers approved legislation on Sunday to automatically send mail-in ballots to voters. Gov. Stephen Sisolak of Nevada, a Democrat, is expected to sign the bill into law. Trump said he planned to have the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The president has aggressively advocated for in-person voting in recent months even as state-level election officials move to expand mail-in voting amid the nationwide outbreak of coronavirus, which many fear could be easily spread at polling places. He stopped short of saying he would issue an executive order in response to the push for more mail-in voting, though he said: “I have the right to do it. We haven’t gotten there yet. We’ll see what happens.”

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But Republican political operatives have embraced vote-by-mail, and a recent study found that it does not benefit one party over another.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-nevada-mail-voting-lawsuit-390878

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This suit will be laughed out of court. I'm pretty sure that voting and how people vote in Nevada has already
been covered by the state's Constitution and its laws.

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