Yesterday, President Trump retweeted a tweet stating that an audit of voting machines in Nevada showed a 70% error rate. This is clearly not true, but this (at least to me) is a new unsupported fraud claim promoted by the president. So where did it come from?
As far as I can tell, it comes from a prominent/anonymous right-wing Twitter account that misunderstood how Clark County's signature verification machine/process works, and claimed that there was an error rate of 70%
Clark County used an Agilis machine for signature verification. The 70% figure refers to the rough estimate of ballots that are not "matched" by the machine to signatures on file, and are then hand-checked by election workers.
Nevada does use Dominion voting machines in 16 of 17 counties. But the Agilis machine is manufactured by Runbeck Election Services, which isn't owned/affiliated with Dominion
runbeck.net/agilis-ballot-…
The Trump campaign filed and lost a lawsuit in state court challenging use of the Agilis signature verification machine before Election Day
thenevadaindependent.com/article/judge-…

Similar claims were rejected in federal court as well
thenevadaindependent.com/article/federa…

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9 Dec
Just in: NV Supreme Court denies Trump campaign appeal of election contest lawsuit. Story soon @TheNVIndy
@TheNVIndy Here is the filing - unanimous ruling
beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2042…
@TheNVIndy From ruling: "To prevail on this appeal, appellants must demonstrate error of law, findings of fact not supported by substantial evidence, or an abuse of discretion in the admission or rejection of evidence by the district court...We are not convinced they have done so."
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9 Dec
If you're still following for updates on the Trump election contest lawsuit in Nevada;

Attorneys for the Trump campaign + Dems have a 7 p.m. deadline to submit supplemental briefs to the state Supreme Court.

Any filings will be posted here:
caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/public/caseVie…
Will there be a decision tonight?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the fact court asked for supplemental brief after hours is maybe a good sign for a ruling tonight - Ds want decision today (safe harbor deadline) and GOP wants to fully brief case/decision next week
Both the Trump campaign and Dems have filed supplemental briefs by the 7 p.m. deadline.
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8 Dec
Another Trump NV election contest lawsuit update -- campaign is moving to disqualify Justice James Hardesty from participating in case
Here's the actual motion, where the Trump campaign is attempting to disqualify Justice Hardesty from NV election contest lawsuit because he congratulated the @NVSOS on carrying out an "extraordinarily successful election."
beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2042…
Here is Justice Hardesty's response to the Trump campaign's motion to disqualify him from the election contest lawsuit in Nevada - says his comments to @NVSOS was "an appropriately courteous and professional response and in no way reflects any predisposition or opinion by me."
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7 Dec
Tuesday is the "safe harbor" deadline, a key date where "states must certify results if they want protection under federal election law against Congress stepping in to decide which candidate gets their electoral votes."
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… via @ZoeTillman
In Nevada, the Trump campaign has filed a notice of appeal with Carson City District Court after its lawsuit seeking to block certification/switch NV's 6 electoral votes to Trump were rejected by Judge James Russell on Friday
thenevadaindependent.com/article/judge-…
We're waiting for the actual appeal itself to be filed with the state Supreme Court, which will likely happen at some point today and ask for an expedited decision before the end of Tuesday
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3 Dec
I'll be covering the 1:30 p.m. hearing on the Trump campaign's lawsuit (Law v. Whitmer) seeking to block NV's presidential results or have the state's 6 electoral votes assigned to President Trump.

Livestream link here:
Judge James Russell is in the court, we're getting underway
Judge Russell says "It is important for all Americans to have confidence that their governmental officials have conducted a fair open and free election."
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3 Dec
How it feels coming back from vacation to immediately jump into coverage of the Economic Forum -->
(Follow @MichelleRindels and I for updates)
#EconomicForum update - state's Department of Taxation estimates that it will take until 2022 at earliest for state's sales/use tax to recover to pre-pandemic levels. (Sales/use is the largest tax source for state budget)
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