The courtroom has become one of the most important battlefields in modern elections.
Both parties are jockeying for the best legal position.
And a bad Democrat court ruling in a crucial battleground state created absolute chaos.
Nevada Supreme Court throws Democrats a lifeline
Election Day has been replaced with election season with the growth in early and mail-in voting.
Americans used to be able to count on figuring out who won an election that night.
But in one of the crucial swing states this year it could take up to a week to figure out who wins.
Nevada is one of the seven swing states that will decide the Presidential election this year.
Former President Donald Trump has a razor-thin lead of .9% over Vice President Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics polling average of the state.
The state mails ballots to every registered voter in the state.
Late arriving mail-in ballots in Nevada resulted in the Associated Press calling the state for President Joe Biden four days after Election Day in 2020.
This year the results of the state’s contest almost certainly won’t be known the night of the election.
The Democrat-controlled Nevada Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots without a postmark could be accepted up to four days after Election Day.
“If a voter properly and timely casts their vote by mailing their ballot before or on the day of the election, and through a post office omission the ballot is not postmarked, it would go against public policy to discount that properly cast vote,” the Nevada Supreme Court ruling stated.
The ruling ignored Nevada law that required a postmark on mail-in ballots by stating that no postmark means that it was postmarked on Election Day.
Late-arriving mail-in ballots have historically heavily favored Democrats in Nevada.
The race between U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and her Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in the 2022 Midterm Elections saw him go to bed on Election Night with a lead of more than 10,000 votes.
Mail-in ballots poured in over the next week which resulted in Masto winning the race by less than 8,000 votes.
Nevada could be the deciding state
The winner of Nevada would determine the next President if Trump won Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona while Kamala won North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Americans may have to wait on mail-in ballots in Nevada for more than a week to know who won the election.
Republicans have turned in a strong performance in early voting in the state and some Democrat operatives think the election could be a photo finish.
“Remember this: Even in the best-case scenario for the Dems, smart Dems still believe it will be very close – and by close I mean 10,000 votes or so. That would be less than 1 percent,” Nevada Independent publisher Jon Ralston wrote.
Heritage Foundation legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky told the Daily Caller that there’s no way to know if Nevada will be called on Election Night and that the state’s Supreme Court created chaos.
“We won’t really know because there is no way to predict that,” von Spakovsky said. “But it is a monumentally stupid decision that invites fraud by bad actors who may try to gather up ballots that have not been voted and then submit them after Election Day as they see the preliminary, unofficial results.”
Americans could be waiting on the edge of their seats as mail-in ballots trickle into Nevada if the election comes down to the Silver State.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
