Clark County, Nevada, election officials have been compelled to investigate residents registered to vote at strip clubs, casinos, gas stations, and other commercial business addresses after the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) discovered these issues in voter registrations. The problem is significant in Nevada because the state’s election officials mail out ballots to all registered voters.
Among the seemingly faulty voter registrations identified by PILF lawyers are those where registrants listed Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club, a 7-Eleven, a Nevada-based gas station, Chavelo’s Mexican Bar and Grill, Harry Reid International Airport, and a Mini Mart and Smoke Shop as their primary addresses.
Lawyers with PILF had asked Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo to clean up the voter rolls in June of this year. When Portillo refused, PILF filed a lawsuit, prompting Portillo to investigate the seemingly faulty voter registrations and remove them from the voter rolls.
Without this litigation, mail ballots would have gone to improper addresses,” Adams said. If Nevada is going to continue to run its elections by automatically mailing a ballot to every active registered voter, it needs to do a better job at identifying improper voter registrations.
Faulty voter registrations have long been an issue for Clark County. In the 2020 presidential election, PILF found that more than 92,000 mail-in ballots sent to active registered voters in Clark County ended up bouncing as “undeliverable” — representing over seven percent of the total 1.2 million mail-in ballots that were sent out in the county.