Final Note

Nevada judge throws out Trump’s early voting lawsuit

Kai Ryssdal Nov 8, 2016
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Final Note

Nevada judge throws out Trump’s early voting lawsuit

Kai Ryssdal Nov 8, 2016
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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While most people were out voting (there’s still time in most states!) lawyers for Donald Trump were in court in Nevada this afternoon.

They’d filed a complaint saying early voting polling stations stayed open two hours longer than they were supposed to past Friday night. Clark County witnessed early voter turnout in record numbers, allowing Democrats a significant lead in today’s polling.

The campaign wanted the ballots and voting machines from those polling stations, as well as the names of poll workers, impounded and preserved. The judge was not sympathetic.

She asked the campaign’s lawyer how he’d protect those workers from being harassed.

2016, right there, is what that was.

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