Addresses on the Voter Roll in Washoe County include the Nevada Gaming Control Board, liquor stores, parking lots, and tattoo parlors.
(Reno, NV) – May 20, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a petition for mandamus to force Washoe County, Nevada election officials to investigate and fix commercial addresses on the voter roll. Under Nevada law, individuals are required to register to vote where they live. Additionally, state law requires election officials to perform voter list maintenance to ensure the voter roll is accurate.
Since before the 2020 election, PILF has been notifying Nevada election officials about commercial addresses on the voter roll.
Follow-up investigations by the Foundation in 2024 revealed hundreds of questionable addresses remain on the state’s voter roll. Highlights of some of these addresses in Washoe County include the Nevada Gaming Control Board, liquor stores, parking lots, and tattoo parlors. Below is a picture of one of the registered addresses.
More pictures of the addresses flagged by the Foundation for election officials are in the petition.
Nevada’s policy of automatically mailing a ballot to every active registered voter makes it essential that election officials have accurate voter rolls and are not mailing ballots to addresses where no one lives.
“For years Nevada election officials have ignored hard evidence of commercial addresses on the voter roll,” said PILF President, J. Christian Adams. “We are asking the court to force Nevada election officials to investigate and resolve any improper commercial addresses on the voter roll. Nevada must have accurate voter rolls. Otherwise, some of these liquor stores and tattoo parlors will receive ballots in the mail.”
According to data from the Nevada Secretary of State, in the 2022 Midterms, 95,556 ballots were sent to undeliverable or “bad” addresses. To put this figure into perspective, the 2022 Senate race was decided by less than 8,000 votes.
The Foundation is representing Fred Kraus, a Nevada voter.
The attorneys for PILF in this case are J. Christian Adams, Kaylan Phillips, and Joseph Nixon.
Case filings and documents in Fred Kraus and Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Carrie-Ann Burgess can be found here.
Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity. The Foundation exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections. Drawing on numerous experts in the field, PILF seeks to protect the right to vote and preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections. PILF has brought lawsuits and won victories in Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and across the United States.
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