Breaking: Judge Denies Trump Campaign Request in Ludicrous Nevada Early Voting Case
‘Do You Watch Twitter?’
The attorney for the Donald J. Trump for President campaign was just slapped down by a Nevada judge who refused all of his requests. The campaign late Monday filed a lawsuit against the Clark County, Nevada, Registrar of Voters, claiming that at four polling locations voters were allowed to vote after polls were officially supposed to close. Nevada law states if a voter is on line when the polls are scheduled to close they must be allowed to cast a ballot.
Notably, the Trump campaign asked for the names of poll workers who volunteered, effectively making them public. Judge Gloria J. Sturman strongly refused, saying, “I am not going to expose people doing their civic duty to help people vote to public attention, ridicule, and harassment.”
Trump’s attorney insisted there “will be no harassment” of those workers.Â
“How can you tell me that?” Sturman asked, incredulously. “Do you watch Twitter?” she asked. “Do you watch any cable news show?”
“There are internet trolls who could get this information and harass people who just want to help their fellow citizens vote,” the judge noted.
The Trump campaign wants to make names of Nevada poll workers public. Judge’s response: pic.twitter.com/tes99IMbbH
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) November 8, 2016
She also denied the Trump campaign’s request to order the Clark County clerk to preserve all ballots from four locations, saying the Trump campaign had not exhausted all of its “administrative remedies,” including trying to work with the Nevada Secretary of State.
Judge Sturman was less than impressed with Trump’s attorney’s requests.
“What are you saying? Why are we here?,” she asked. “You want to preserve the poll data? That is offensive to me. Why don’t we wait to see if the secretary of state wants to do this?”
In the end, she concluded, “I am not going to issue any order. I’m not going to do it.”
Veteran Las Vegas reporter Jon Ralston concludes:
Judge Sturman pointing out how insane this is because YOU CAN’T OPEN BALLOTS AND SEE HOW PEOPLE VOTED!
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 8, 2016
That was the Trump campaign in a nutshell in that NV court hearing:
Unprepared.
Loony logic.
Lack of knowledge.— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 8, 2016
Guys, this suit is going nowhere.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 8, 2016
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Image: Screenshot via KLAS-TV

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