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According to the newly unsealed motion, Trump alleged that Nevada’s signature verification machines were problematic as in Clark County, “the accuracy settings on signature verification machines were purposely lowered before they were used to count over 130,000 ballots.” He also asserted that there were “more than 42,000 double votes in Nevada.” [U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, United States v. Donald J. Trump, Government’s Motion for Immunity Determinations, 10/2/24]
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Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer questioned why the signature verification machines were only “preset at 40%” and not “up to 100%, which would rule out any little deviation of a signature.” He then asked, “Why wasn’t it set at any level where you really did have a lot of confidence and the only signatures would be the one that matched, particularly since Nevada had never before mailed ballots in the general election to all its voters?” [Fox News, Hannity, 11/16/20]
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Guest and Las Vegas Journal Review columnist Victor Joecks claimed that Nevada’s signature verification machines, “which had been built up as this infallible security measure, had an 89% failure rate.” Joecks made this claim based on his own bizarre experiment in which he copied signatures of nine volunteers as they appeared on the ballot, sent it to them, and they copied his copy of their signatures onto the ballots and mailed them in. Eight out of nine signatures were supposedly accepted. Anchor Martha MacCallum called this result “shocking.” [Fox News, The Story, 11/17/20]
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American Conservative Union’s Matt Schlapp claimed that Nevada had “thousands and thousands of examples of real people in real-life instances of voter illegality,” including “nonresidents” and “people voting twice, dead people voting,” adding, “I believe the results in Nevada should be switched.” Guest host and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said, “I would really like to hear the Clark County clerk explain to people why nonresidents of Nevada can continue to vote in Nevada. I can't wait to have him in a deposition.” [Fox News, Hannity, 11/24/20]
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Hannity reported that “one whistleblower [is] claiming that over 40,000 people actually voted twice, 23,000 ballots were mailed to out-of-state voters,” adding, “That's illegal.” He also promised his audience that his show would have “all of the details here” of a court proceeding discussing “44,000 ballots cast from nonresidential, nonexistent addresses, 1,500 from people all voting from beyond the grave.” [Fox News, Hannity, 12/2/20]
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Following the court testimony, Hannity said that “real people” under “penalty of perjury” confirmed that “over 130,000 ballots in Nevada were illegally cast.” Hannity said, “They have identified what they believe were 42,000 people who actually voted twice, 23,000 people that were mailed to people out of the state. That would be an ineligible voter, 44,000 ballots cast from nonexistent or commercial addresses. Nonexistent. And over 1,500 votes from people who are not alive. They are dead.” [Fox News, Hannity, 12/3/20]
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After Trump’s lawsuit to get Nevada to toss its election results was itself thrown out, Hannity hosted then-Trump campaign lawyer Jesse Binnall, who claimed that his “ragtag group of volunteers and lawyers put together … an excellent case that showed exactly a conservative number for how many fraudulent votes there were in Nevada, and the real number is actually probably much higher than that." Binnall also threatened to take the case to the Supreme Court of Nevada, adding, “If we're really going to be a nation, for the people, of the people, and by the people, then that means elections where the voters decide — not having disenfranchisement of voters by allowing thousands and thousands on thousands of fraudulent votes." [Fox News, Hannity, 12/4/20; Nevada Independent, 12/5/20]
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Before Trump’s election lawsuit was rejected, former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel alleged that “Donald Trump will win Nevada” because his team was “collecting this evidence” of “42,000 voters double voting, including people voting from abandoned residences and casting votes.” McDaniel also claimed that Nevada ”did not check their voter rolls, and this is what you are getting, chaos on the back end, and I think it is good that we called this to attention and we make sure that we don't let this happen again." [Fox News, The Story, 12/3/20]
