The Trump campaign has filed a federal lawsuit in Nevada seeking to stop the planned distribution of mail-in ballots to legally registered voters, pursuant to a state law passed in July, the Associated Press reports.
The law directs the Nevada Secretary of State to mail ballots to 1.7 million active voters, claiming that it would force republicans to redirect funds from other campaign efforts into an education effort for its members about mail-in voting.
In the 16-page filing, the Trump campaign argues “the law will ‘confuse’ their voters and ‘create incentive’ to stay away from the polls.” Nevada’s republican Secretary of State opposes the law, but the Democratic Attorney General is defending the law, passed by Nevada’s Democratic-led legislature and signed by the state’s Democratic governor.
The Attorney General argues that the Trump campaign and the federal court do not have standing because the law is a state law in compliance with the duties of the state legislature and governor.
The judge in the case, Senior U.S. District Judge James Mahan, a GW Bush appointee, has not scheduled a hearing in the case, risking the viability of the case with less than eight weeks prior to Election Day.