In Nevada, Justice Gloria Starnhem refused GOP nominee Jim Marchant, a congressional candidate for Clark County, to suspend certification of the US general election results. About this on Friday, November 20, local edition 8 News Now.
According to her, the court does not have such jurisdiction. In addition, the judge noted, it would interfere with counting the votes of approximately one million voters.
Marchent’s lead over the winning incumbent Democrat Stephen Horsford was only 16,000 votes. Clark County, with a population of over two million, includes the metropolis of Las Vegas and over 70% of Nevada’s population.
Earlier, the district, along with a number of other regions of the state, certified the election results and confirmed the victory of the Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden.
On November 17, incumbent US President Donald Trump criticized the Clark County authorities in Nevada, which, he said, “are not confident in the security of the elections.” Thus, Trump commented on the message of a member of his campaign headquarters, Republican Adam Laxalt.
He wrote that the Clark County Commission rejected the election results, which account for almost one-sixth of the total votes cast in Clark County, due to too many “discrepancies” and uncertainty that the results of these elections can be certain.
These are local elections in Clark County, which were invalidated. Only candidates from the US Democratic Party took part in them, they were divided by only 10 votes, however, in 936 cases inconsistencies were found in the protocols, and in 139 cases inconsistencies could not be resolved. As a result, elections to the local council will be held again, writes The Nevada Independent.
General elections in the United States were held on November 3, but the final results have not yet been summed up.