The Trump campaign expressed concern Nevada isn’t doing enough to keep noncitizens off voter registration rolls in a new lawsuit against the state.
The Trump campaign argued on Thursday that Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar should take further action to protect the integrity of the vote, according to court filings.
Aguilar speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz)
The Nevada GOP, the Republican National Committee, and a Clark County voter are joining the Trump campaign’s lawsuit against Aguilar, the Democratic National Committee, and the Nevada Democratic Party.
The lawsuit is a dispute to former Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s review of the Nevada Republican Party’s alleged evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. In 2021, Cegavske said she did not find “evidentiary support for the contention that the 2020 general election was plagued by widespread voter fraud.”
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The Trump campaign and its allies are now arguing that Cegavske’s findings were based on a faulty interpretation of prior Supreme Court cases.
It also cited Harvard University’s Cooperative Election Study, which indicated that Nevada’s 4% of noncitizen respondents who claimed to be registered to vote is higher than the national average of roughly 2.5%.
Additionally, the campaign pointed to court public records showing that 8% of one district court’s jury pool claimed disqualification because they were noncitizens. The GOP used the data as evidence in its lawsuit that noncitizens have made it into voter rolls, as juries are compiled in part through voter registration lists.
Aguilar pushed back against the GOP’s claims that he is “failing in his list maintenance and investigatory duties to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered and voting in Nevada elections.”
“There are already numerous safeguards in place to prevent noncitizens, or anyone ineligible to vote, from casting a ballot,” the secretary of state’s office told the Nevada Independent. “Any claims of a widespread problem are false and only create distrust in our elections.”
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The RNC and the Nevada GOP recently celebrated the secretary of state’s office after it removed over 76,000 inactive voters from the state’s active voter list in August.
“NVGOP & the Trump campaign have taken the lead to ensure election officials follow the law and clean our voter rolls. Thank you @NVSOS for these important updates,” the Nevada GOP praised in a post to X on Wednesday.
Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls.
That’s especially true in a state like Nevada, which automatically sends a mail ballot to every active voter listed on the roll.
Proud of this unified @GOP campaign to promote election integrity in the Silver State. https://t.co/nG29Dqa5Nb
Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have emphasized the importance of winning Nevada as it is shaping up to play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the presidential election.
Trump most recently made an appearance in the state in late August during a visit to a Las Vegas restaurant. Wading into the kitchen to greet employees, he pitched his no-tax-on-tips policy that has gained traction with the electorate. The former president is set to hold another Nevada rally Friday evening in Las Vegas.
Trump narrowly lost the battleground state during his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. As Nevada looms large in the 2024 presidential race, election security has become a major theme in the state.
The Trump campaign, RNC, and the state GOP are in the midst of another legal battle to prevent the counting of mail-in ballots in Nevada that lack a clear postmark and are received several days after Election Day.
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Additionally, Aguilar’s office announced it had fully implemented a new top-down voter registration and election management system in September. The “centralized statewide voter registration database” connects election processes and data from each of the state’s 17 counties and consolidates all the information into a single system.
Meanwhile, Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) is fighting to implement a voter ID law, as Nevada does not require voters to provide any type of identification before casting a ballot in most cases.
Mojave (Nev.) head football coach Wes Pacheco announced on Sunday morning that he’s stepping down from his position, according to a social media post.
Pacheco announced his resignation after six seasons at the helm of the Rattlers, putting together a 29-22 overall record from 2020-2025.
“I have officially stepped down as Head Coach of the Mojave Football Program,” Pacheco said in his social media post. “Thank you to Principal Cole for giving me the opoortunity make an impact on the lives of Mojave Student-Athletes. I am grateful and blessed to have labored through a 6-year journey of successes, failures, life lessons, character building and growth with the student-athletes myself and my coaching staff have served. I will forever love my Mojave Family, the Mojave Community and believe in the notion that SUCCESS can be attained by showcasing character, treating everyone with respect, and always have the courage to dream big and trust that “ATTACKING THE HARD WORK” & “HIGH MOTORING EVERYTHING” can yield SUCCESS that you want to achieve in life!”
During Pacheco’s half dozen seasons leading Mojave, his best record came in the 2024 season when the Rattlers finished with a 12-1 record. Located out of North Las Vegas, Mojave had to compete against the likes of national high school football powerhouse Bishop Gorman during the regular season.
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Mojave ended the last season with a 4-6 record and as the state’s No. 23rd ranked team, according to the final 2025 Nevada High School Football Massey Rankings.
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A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
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So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
