LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The ACLU of Nevada intervened in a court action Wednesday, which attempts to stop the purging of nearly 20,000 registered voters weeks before the presidential election.
On Sept. 23, Citizen Outreach Foundation filed paperwork asking a judge to require 19,740 Clark County voters prove their voting eligibility because their names appear in a change-of-address database, documents said.
Federal law prohibits any voter list maintenance 90 days before an election. The Citizen Outreach Foundation claims the 90-day blackout period does not apply to their challenges.
According to the ACLU, at least one person among the 19,470 is married to an active-duty Air Force member stationed overseas.
“Service abroad in our nation’s armed forces is just one of many permissible reasons why a lawfully registered Nevada voter might need to forward their mail on an indefinite basis, which is exactly why Nevada and federal law bar the use of [the USPS National Change of Address] data alone to alter a voter’s registration status this close to an election,” the ACLU said in court documents.