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Nevada Adopts Mail-In Voting, But Trump Threatens Lawsuit

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in Nevada have agreed to send ballots to all
   voters in the western U.S. state for November's presidential election,
   a move that drew an immediate rebuke from President Donald Trump as
   unfair to Republicans.

   The legislation, which is expected to be signed by Democratic Governor
   Steve Sisolak, would make Nevada the eighth state to automatically send
   mail-in ballots to make it easier to vote and avoid long lines at
   polling places on Nov. 3 in the midst of the continuing surge of the
   coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

   Trump has contended, without evidence, that increased mail-in voting,
   in Nevada and elsewhere, will lead to widespread election fraud and an
   election rigged against him.

   The president threatened to sue to block the change in the voting
   regimen in Nevada, where he lost by 27,000 votes to Democrat Hillary
   Clinton in the 2016 election. Polling shows the state leaning toward
   the presumptive Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden,
   over Trump in the election three months from now.

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