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Nevada Republican Election Clerk Being Recalled by Trump Cultists
Her crime: She does not accept Trump’s big lie as truth because she oversaw the voting in 2020 and knows there was no fraud.
This flag hangs in front of Cindy Elgan’s home in Esmeralda County, Nevada, where she is an election clerk. Elgan voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and plans to do so again in 2024. She is 65 years old and is committed to the lowest-paying election board job because she feels ensuring the integrity of the vote is one of the key components of our democracy.
Elgan, because she knows how the vote is verified in Nevada, knows there is no chance that voter fraud was possible in Nevada. She thinks that Trump is wrong about Nevada and has spent four years doing everything in her power to prove to her neighbors and friends, Trumpists (82 percent voted for him in 2020), that the system for casting one’s vote is as secure as it can be. She has offered behind-the-scenes tours to anyone wanting to see how things work. Elgan has managed to explain away every conspiracy theory generated by Trump and his cult followers. Or so she thought.
A woman she called a friend who had been to her house for countless Thanksgiving celebrations recently showed up with a petition for Elgan’s recall. 160 of…
