Federal Pardon Highlights Serious Nevada Election Issues
President Donald Trump has pardoned six Nevada residents who served as alternate electors following the 2020 presidential election, with U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward Martin releasing an explosive document detailing extensive election irregularities that prompted their actions.
The six Nevadans receiving pardons are NV GOP Chairman Michael McDonald, recently ousted Clark County Central Committee Chair Jesse Law, Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Durward James Hindle III, Shawn Meehan, and Eileen Rice.
The pardon document doesn’t just defend the alternate electors – it lays out shocking allegations about what really happened in Nevada during the 2020 election.
The Nevada Election Irregularities Nobody Talked About
According to Martin’s statement, Nevada officials:
“ignored credible data analysis identifying tens of thousands of potential duplicates, deceased, and non-citizen voters” and “ignored undisputed evidence of vote buying, violating Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 293.700.”
Think about that for a second. We’re talking about tens of thousands of questionable votes in a state Biden supposedly won by just 33,596 votes. Dead people voting. Non-citizens voting. People voting twice. And actual vote buying – paying people for their ballots.
The document also reveals Nevada:
“allowed the use of unsecured, unmonitored ballot drop boxes statewide, violating of N.M. Stat. Ann. § 1-6-9.”
It also alleges that the state of Nevada:
“failed to prevent unlawful ballot harvesting.”
These drop boxes had no security cameras, no monitoring, no chain of custody. Anyone could stuff them with ballots.
Media Censorship Made It Worse
Martin’s statement goes even further, describing how:
“both legacy and powerful social media blatantly and aggressively censored information harmful to then-Candidate Biden’s campaign.”
Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story? The document specifically mentions how media:
“led a disinformation campaign to wrongfully discredit validated facts gathered from Biden’s son’s laptop, which laid bare Biden family’s corruption.”
The statement describes this as:
“arguably … the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”
When Americans tried to raise questions about election integrity, they were silenced, banned from social media, and labeled as conspiracy theorists.
Why the Alternate Electors Acted
Given all these problems, the alternate electors weren’t trying to “steal” anything. Martin explains they were following centuries of precedent.
In 1876, Democrats in five states sent competing slates to Congress. In 1960, Hawaii Democrats sent alternate electors while a recount was happening – and those alternates ended up being the ones counted when Kennedy won the recount.
The Nevada alternate electors were preserving Trump’s legal standing while courts sorted through these massive irregularities.
They acted:
“openly, in consultation with counsel, and while active litigation or other challenges were pending.”
The Weaponization of Justice
Here’s what makes conservatives’ blood boil: For the first time in American history, alternate electors are being prosecuted criminally. Martin calls this:
“baseless partisan retribution for otherwise lawful conduct,”
He describes it as part of the:
“weaponization of the justice system.”
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has charged these six patriots with felonies. Ford recently declared “this is not going away” and filed new charges to beat the statute of limitations. He’s determined to jail these people no matter what.
Trump’s Pardon Can’t Stop State Prosecution
Here’s the problem – Trump’s pardon only covers federal charges, and these folks are facing state charges. Ford can keep prosecuting them under Nevada law despite the presidential pardon.
Courts Failed America
The Martin document reveals another scandal:
“Lawsuits brought to challenge the unconstitutional changes to election laws, procedural violations, ineligible voters, and election irregularities were dismissed by courts on technical and procedural grounds rather than being fully adjudicated on the merits.”
Courts refused to even look at the evidence. They dismissed cases on technicalities. In Georgia, a judge wasn’t even appointed to hear Trump’s election contest until January 4, 2021 – with the hearing scheduled for after Congress counted electoral votes. How convenient.
What This Means Going Forward
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is quoted in the document saying there’s:
“evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results.”
She promises more information will be made public.
Martin’s statement makes clear this is about “ending a grave national injustice” and achieving “national reconciliation.” But with prosecutors like Ford refusing to back down, that reconciliation seems far away.
Actions for Conservatives
First, support these Nevadans facing political persecution. They need legal defense and public support.
Second, demand your state legislators pass laws protecting alternate electors. If it was legal for Democrats in 1960, it should be legal for Republicans today.
Third, push for real election security. No more unmonitored drop boxes. No more mass mail-in voting without proper safeguards. Require voter ID and signature verification.
Finally, remember what happened here. When massive irregularities tainted Nevada’s 2020 election, citizens who tried to preserve legal challenges are being prosecuted while the irregularities themselves were never properly investigated.
The pardons recognize these Americans:
“acted lawfully within established Constitutional traditions.”
But until prosecutors like Ford are held accountable for their partisan witch hunts, the injustice continues.
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