Las Vegas Casino, Strip Club Listed as Voters’ Residence: Lawsuit

Posted on: July 1, 2024, 11:07h. 

Last updated on: July 1, 2024, 11:20h.

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Voters in Las Vegas and elsewhere in Clark County, Nev. improperly put down their home address as Larry Flynt’s Hustler Erotic Ultra Club, as well as a gaming property and an industrial park, according to a recent lawsuit.

Hundreds of these illicit registrations were discovered by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, and private citizens Frederick H. Kraus and Joey Paulos, who filed the litigation.

Regulations require voters to list their legal residential address, otherwise, they aren’t registered to vote.

Last week’s federal lawsuit claims Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo failed to confirm the accuracy of information listed by some voters.

“In Clark County, people are registered to vote from strip clubs, casinos, gas stations and more crazy addresses where it appears no one could reasonably live,” J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, was quoted by the New York Post.

We are asking the court to force Nevada election officials to investigate any improper commercial addresses on the voter roll,” Adams said. “We must have this fixed before the 2024 election. Otherwise, some of these strip clubs and casinos will receive ballots in the mail.”

Larry Flynt’s Hustler Erotic Ultra Club is an off-Strip adult entertainment facility.

Other questionable home addresses of voters include a sushi restaurant and industrial park in Boulder City, a Meineke Car Care Center, Trigg Laboratories, which makes personal lubricants, Binion’s Gambling Hall, and federal facilities.

In May, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative-leaning legal advocacy group, sued Carrie-Ann Burgess, Washoe County’s interim voter registrar for similar allegations.

Voters in that region listed a Reno city park, an office building, and a coffee shop as their residential addresses.

Bad Addresses Statewide

In 2022, 95,556 ballots were mailed to what were described as bad addresses in the state, the Post reported. That’s about 5% of Nevada’s roll of voters, according to state officials.

Of the statewide total, 69,698 of the bad ballots were mailed to locations in Las Vegas or elsewhere in Clark County.

Nevada has seen some close races in recent years, so the accuracy of voting rolls has become more important. Nevada is also considered a key state in November’s presidential election.

Counties Respond

In response to the lawsuit against Clark County, Stephanie Wheatley, a county public information officer, said officials don’t comment on “pending litigation,” the Post reported.

Bethany Drysdale, a spokesperson for Washoe County, told the Post, “We follow state and federal law in how we clean our voter rolls.”