Members of Trump’s legal team were sent to Clark County, Nevada during yesterday’s historic election day to file a lawsuit over alleged foul-play at an early voting polling place on Friday evening. Lawyers for Trump alleged that poll workers kept the polling place open for several hours after it was due to close in order to allow everyone in line to vote. While Nevada law requires that everyone in line at the 8pm cut-off time be allowed to vote, Trump’s legal team accused poll workers of allowing people to join the queue after 8pm.

Poll workers’ names to be ‘preserved’

Appearing before Clark County judge Gloria Sturman yesterday afternoon, lawyers for Trump requested that the court order for all the names of individuals working at the polling station in question be ‘preserved’ so that the might be accessed after the election. The decision to extend access to the polling station, which is located in a community with the large Latino population, was ‘intentionally coordinated with Democratic activists,’ alleged the Trump camp. ‘We need to interview them, talk to them,’ said lawyer David Lee, arguing that preserving the poll workers’ names was a necessary part of the process of discovery for the lawsuit.

Request ‘offensive’, says judge

However, Judge Sturman quickly shot down the request, labelling it as ‘offensive’ and expressing concern that poll workers might be targets of public and institutional harassment as a result. ‘It’s disturbing to me that those individuals might be harassed… I’m not going to expose people doing their civic duty to help their fellow citizens to vote to public ridicule, attention and harassment,’ she said, before telling Mr Lee and his co-counsel to ‘sit down.’ Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton ended up claiming victory in Nevada with 47.9 per cent of the vote, helped along by 401,068 votes in Clark County to Trump’s 319,571. 

Sources: Business Insider; Reuters; Vanity Fair