Both said they voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and feared Republican Donald Trump’s immigration proposals. He promised Clinton would “work her heart out” and told voters not to believe the “nonsense” coming from Trump, who has made unsubstantiated claims the US election is “rigged” against him.
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Judge Gloria Sturman was “exasperated” with Trump’s lawyers during a hearing on the lawsuit, Vanity Fair reports.
As many as 300 people came in to vote after 8pm, according to the poll watcher.
“From the polling, it appears that Nevada is so close that the Trump campaign thinks it’s worth challenging any violation in voting protocol”.
“Having a daughter of my own. even if I agreed with a lot of what he says, I couldn’t in good conscience vote for him”, said Veronica Jones, a 34-year-old mother of five from Las Vegas. “Do you watch Twitter?”.
She also expressed concerns about releasing the identities of poll workers and exposing information in secret ballots, if the lawsuit went forward.
The campaign says allowing people to vote past closing time was illegal, but the county says they were accommodating people already in line. If Clinton wins the state, it probably means African Americans are turning out to vote at a similar rate to 2012, when President Barack Obama beat Republican Mitt Romney by four points nationally.
The Trump Nevada lawsuit was based on a wild conspiracy theory that people were allowed to walk up and join the line in Clark County after the polls had closed. The clerk also has full authority to determine when temporary polling places are open during the early voting period only. Donald Trump’s campaign is alleging polling place “anomalies” during early voting in the Las Vegas area last week.
“Our strategy these last few days is to focus on the states where voting overwhelmingly happens on Election Day”, Mook said on CNN’s New Day.
“There are internet trolls who could get this information and harass people who just want to help their fellow citizens vote”, the judge noted. A Nevada state elections official did not immediate return calls requesting clarification. They filed the suit late Tuesday morning; Sturman made her decision at about 2:30 p.m. EDT.
But not all states are equal – California, for example, has more than 10 times the population of CT, so they don’t get an equal say.
Clark County election officials said that voting machines can not be separated and sequestered, as requested, because they are already in use again.
Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, is more than 30 percent Hispanic.
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In response, county spokesman Dan Kulin told CNN that only voters already in line at closing time had been allowed to stay and vote.
