LAS VEGAS — Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria revealed that his office in Nevada received reports of potential voter fraud and said his office will investigate those after the election is completed, marking a change in tone as Nevada faces legal challenges from President Trump’s campaign over the election.
“We do have some reports that have come in that we’re logging for reporting. But we’re definitely going to do an investigation, and we’ll deal with them once the canvass is finished,” Gloria said in a press conference Saturday when asked if he was aware of any nefarious or illegitimate ballots cast. “The votes are in the system at this point, so we’ll have to after the election, post-election, go after anything that’s been reported at this time.”
The Nevada county accounts for the vast majority of voters in the state. It is still counting ballots, and the final canvass of votes is on Nov. 16. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, was projected by media outlets to win the presidential race on Saturday, with Pennsylvania and Nevada being called for him.
Gloria said he was not aware of a specific report about a dead person voting in the county but will investigate that if it is reported to his office.
Asked whether he cross-checks the county’s voter rolls with the Social Security Death Index, Gloria said, “We have several reports that come through with several entities to clean up our voter rolls.”
Earlier in the week, Gloria indicated that reports of improper ballot casting were near nonexistent.
In an Election Day press conference, Gloria said that his office had identified only one improperly cast ballot by a Trump supporter who tried to vote twice.
On Thursday, Gloria was asked to respond to claims of fraud from Trump’s campaign.
“We are not aware of any improper ballots that are being processed,” Gloria said.
The Nevada Republican Party has since flooded social media with stories, not all of which have been verified, about fraudulent votes such as dead people voting, Trump supporters who were unable to cast ballots, and other problems with the voting system.
The Trump campaign and Republicans filed a lawsuit and forwarded a complaint to the Justice Department on Thursday, alleging that Gloria failed to maintain the county’s voter list sufficiently, resulting in 3,000 voters who had changed their address to move out of Nevada voting in this year’s general election.
On Friday, Gloria said that his office will look through that list of individuals and offered a possible explanation.
“You don’t have to live here in order to be eligible to vote here,” Gloria said. “This is a military town. We have Nellis Air Force Base. We also have several students that travel outside of the state to go to school. Those folks are eligible to vote here in Nevada.”
“It’s not out of the ordinary at all for somebody not to live here but be eligible to vote here, so we will look at that, and we’ll review it,” Gloria said.
