Becoming DisEnfranchised

I shall not be voting in this election.  It is not a choice I made, however, but because I have been disenfranchised.  My existence is apparently fraudulent, but in what way they cannot say.  It’s not that they can believe I’m a bot or not-human because I get energy assistance and food stamps.  I have a state issued ID with my address and all of these have been verified; but my voting registration keeps getting flagged and scrubbed and my calls to the Washoe county election board and to the Nevada Secretary of state can’t tell me why i have been scrubbed from the voting roles; only that there are various reasons that it might have happened.  

I first found ou I had been removed in 2022 when I didn’t receive a male-in ballot.  Well I was able to go the polls and vote in person, but in doing so, you must show the mail-in ballot (which all Nevada registered voters receive) and since I didn’t have either a mailed sample or regular ballot to confirm my registration I was forced to sign several different documents that supposedly could be checked if I did also mail in a ballot.

Because of that, I checked on my registry even before the primaries this year,even though as a registered non-partisan, Nevada does not permit my taking part in primaries.  I was not registered and I reregistered.  When I sent in my application for renewed energy assistance, I checked my registration status and had been purged once again.  I was able to reregister with my application.  Similarly, in September when we were required to attend an in-person meeting to retain our food stamps, I had found I had again been purged, for the third time this year I reregistered.

And for the fourth time this year I have discovered I am still not registered.

The only thing officials an tell me is they don’t why but the computer has flagged my registration as fraudulent.  

But not fraudulent because of any misinformation.  Not fraudulent because I am somehow double registered.  There is no reason the officials can, or at least are willing to share with me, why my registering to vote has been marked fraudulent.  

However, i am not alone.  There is a current lawsuit concerning restoring 40,000 Washoe county voters that have been purged .  This is the last notice by the district judge.

October 2, 2024.

Order Moving up Deadline for Plaintiffs' Response to Defendants' Motion for Leave to Supplement Authority

CRISTINA D. SILVA, District Judge.

[ECF No. 118]

On September 30, 2024, defendant Francisco Aguilar, in his official capacity as Nevada Secretary of State, filed a motion for leave, pursuant to Local Rule 7-2(g), to supplement his authorities in support of his motion to dismiss the first amended complaint. ECF No. 118. Aguilar's proposed supplemental authority is the Ninth Circuit's decision in Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Mayes, 2024 WL 4246721 (9th Cir. Sep. 20, 2024). Plaintiffs' deadline to respond to the motion for leave is currently October 14, 2024. As I was already aware of this new Ninth Circuit decision prior to Aguilar's motion to supplement, any response by plaintiffs need not be extensive. Therefore, the deadline for plaintiffs' response (or notice of non-opposition) to defendant's motion for leave is advanced from October 14, 2024, to October 7, 2024. No reply brief will be necessary, so Aguilar should not file one.

It has been nearly a week since that deadline so perhaps we shall soon have the decision.  But in the meantime, I,  and forty thousand other Washoe County voters are effectively disenfranchised.