A Nevada court Friday dismissed with prejudice a Trump campaign election contest lawsuit. In the suit, the president’s legal team alleged voter fraud in mail-in ballots, voter irregularities in provisional ballots, machine signature matching errors, in-person voter fraud and denial of legal voters, double voting, voter impersonation, late counted ballots, failures in voter roll maintenance, and improper Postal Service ballot delivery. Additionally, the legal team alleged that Nevada’s vote count and observation process itself was flawed and threatened election integrity. Outside of allegations over the election process, the legal team additionally accused the Biden campaign of giving voters monetary incentives to vote for Joe Biden and of filling out fraudulent ballots behind a Biden-Harris campaign bus.
The court dismissed the case because it found that the Trump legal team had failed to meet the requisite burden of proof:
Although Nevada has not addressed this issue, the Court believes that Contestants need to prove the ground for their contest by clear and convincing evidence. This higher standard of proof is appropriate in election contests because it “adequately balances the conflicting interests in preserving the integrity of the lection and avoiding unnecessary disenfranchisement of qualified absentee voters.”…However, even if preponderance of the evidence standard was used, the Court concludes that Contestant’s claims fail on the merits there under or under any standard…Contestants’ evidence does not establish by clear and convincing proof, or under any standard of evidence, that “there was a malfunction of any voting device or electronic tabulator, counting device or computer in a manner sufficient to raise reasonable doubt as to the outcome of the election.”…Contestants did not prove under any standard of proof that the Agilis machine malfunctioned…Contestants did not prove under any standard of proof that illegal votes were cast and counted, or legal votes were not counted at all, due to voter fraud, nor in an amount equal to or greater than 33,596, or otherwise in an amount sufficient to raise reasonable doubt as to the outcome of the election.
The Nevada court’s decision follows a series of cases over the election results and the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s refusal Thursday to hear a Trump campaign election challenge.