In 2014, Nevada citizens like Eleanor Newell didn’t get to vote because the DMV where she registered to vote was not in compliance with federal voter registration law.
Today, Project Vote and our partners sent an official letter to the Secretary of State of Nevada, threatening to bring a lawsuit if the state doesn’t fix its very serious problems.
This pre-ligitgation notice letter, sent on behalf of our clients Ms. Newell and the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, outlines numerous and widespread violations of the National Voter Registration Act in Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
The “motor voter” law was designed to make voter registration through DMVs a seamless and integrated process, ensuring the government takes responsibility for helping to register eligible citizens to vote. But, “Nevada’s procedures are clearly violating that law, and betraying its intent by shoving the burden for registering back onto the individual,” said Project Vote’s Sarah Brannon in a press release today.
Learn more about this letter here and our Government Agency Registration work here.