Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Stop County’s Hand-Count

Nye County residents wait to vote in Pahrump, Nev., on a Nov. 8, 2022 ballot that included Question 2, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage that was adopted with 55 percent of the vote statewide but rejected by 56 percent of voters in Nye County. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

The Nevada Supreme Court on Nov. 14 turned down a request to halt hand counting of ballots in a rural county.

The hand count, which is taking place after all ballots cast in the midterms were tabulated with machines, is essentially a recount or an audit, neither of which are allowed under state law, the Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in an emergency motion on Monday.