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Sides debate registrations
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Nevada Democrats decried a Friday challenge designed to strike more than 17,000 Democrats from the voting rolls.
Dan Burdish, former executive director of the state Republican Party, hauled four boxes of challenges into the county elections office seeking to disqualify voters who he says don't live at the addresses where they registered.
"This is a Republican technique to suppress the vote," Democratic Party spokesman Jon Summers said.
Almost all of the 17,000 voters were Democrats, and all were registered in the 3rd Congressional District, where Democrat Tom Gallagher is challenging incumbent Republican Jon Porter.
Republican Party spokesman Chris Carr said his party is not tied to the challenge.
Under state law, voters who move without updating their voter registrations still can vote, but so-called inactive voters must vote at their old precincts. They also can vote at any early voting site.
Burdish said people should not be allowed to vote for politicians in districts where they no longer live. He said he will file a lawsuit if county officials dismiss his challenge.
The district attorney's office was expected to rule on the challenge next week.
Burdish said his motives were purely political. "I'm looking to take Democrats off the voter rolls," he said.