Nevada ballot hand count on hold after court ruling for unclear reasons

On Wednesday we learned that a rural county in Nevada was beginning the process of hand-counting all of the mail-in ballots that had been received for the midterm elections thus far. It was a contentious process, with Democrats and liberal activist groups furiously filing lawsuits to attempt to prevent the count from taking place in advance of the machine voting that will happen on election day. That process paid off for them because a ruling from the state supreme court led to the count being halted yet again, though the media descriptions of the ruling make it less than clear that the court would terminate the count completely. For example, this report from the Associated Press claims that the court found the hand count to be “illegal.” But that seems to be a disingenuous description at best.Read More