The authorities of Clark County, in the state of Nevada, have responded to former U.S. President Donald Trump, who has assured that the electoral recount of the territory is «corrupt» and will rule in favor of Catherine Cortez, the Democratic candidate for the Senate.
The former president has warned Adam Laxalt, Republican candidate for the upper chamber and one of Trump’s favorites, that the county has «a corrupt voting system», as do «many places» in the United States, a country that, he predicts, will be «Third World» in the future.
Although the recounts give a slight advantage to Laxalt, Clark election authorities have noted that the vote counting process may be extended until next week, something that has aroused the ire of the tycoon, an advocate of conspiracy theories about electoral rigging in favor of the Democrats.
In a message on his social network Truth Social, Trump has warned that other states like Arizona have also set for next week the date on which official results may finally be given. «They want more time to cheat,» he denounced.
However, Clark authorities have come out against these claims, which they have described as «outrageous», and lamented that the former president «is obviously still misinformed about the law and our electoral processes,» implicitly recalling his mistake when he denounced rigging in the 2020 presidential election.
Clark County’s official Twitter account has released a statement defending that, even if they wanted to, they could not speed up the vote counting process in any way because state law allows ballots to be received until Saturday, Nov. 12 as long as they are certified as having been sent in early before the polls are held.
In the same vein, the registrar of voters of Clark, Joe Gloria, explained in a press conference that, although it is true that the votes cast on Tuesday – the day of the mid-term elections – have already been counted, there were still thousands more cast by mail, according to The Hill.
He also pointed out that there could be other factors that could delay the certification and vote counting process in one of the closest Senate races in the U.S., Clark officials said.
«All of our election systems are certified by the state and federal government for use in the state of Nevada, and there are several state-required audits conducted before, during and after each election, further ensuring the reliability and integrity of the election,» Clark said.
