Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Trump sues Nevada county over poll hours extension
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:28:57 -0600
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The Trump campaign took its first step to challenge the election results in Nevada, a hotly contested battleground state.

In a lawsuit filed today, the campaign accused the Clark County registrar of keeping an early voting location open for two extra hours to aid Democratic turnout.

Wayne Thorley, deputy secretary of state for elections, told POLITICO the state is reviewing the complaint.

The complaint alleges a polling location in the county that was scheduled to close at 8 p.m. on Nov. 4 stayed open to accommodate everyone who got in line until 10 p.m. The Republican poll watcher said the extension allowed 150 to 300 people to join the line, according to court documents.

The lawsuit also accused Democrats of distributing literature within the 100-foot no-campaigning zone.

After complaining to the state official overseeing elections, the Trump campaign is seeking an emergency order to set aside the ballots and voting machines from four early-voting locations so that they can be adjudicated after the election.

Diana Orrock, the Republican National Committeewoman for Nevada and a vocal Trump ally, said she was unaware of the lawsuit before POLITICO contacted her.

"I know that the [Clark County] registrar was on TV this morning saying that anybody who's in line was allowed to participate in the voting process until all of them came through," she said. "If that's what they did, I don't have a problem with that ... I don't know that filing a suit's going to accomplish anything."

But Orrock did wonder why the sudden rush to vote early came in the closing hours of the final day. "We have two weeks of early voting and the fact that there's a rush with a bunch of people right before closing on the last day of early voting, looks suspicious to anybody under normal circumstances," she said.

Recent polls showed Hillary Clinton tied or with a slight edge in Nevada, but strong Latino turnout in early voting data led the state's most prominent political reporter, Jon Ralston, to conclude Trump would probably lose the state. Trump has repeatedly called the election "rigged" and said he would accept the results "if I win." 

Kyle Cheney contributed to this report.

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