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TONOPAH, Nev. AP 鈥?The Nye County Commission is used to dealing with all sorts of hot-button controversies.Water rights, livestock rules and marijuana licenses are among the many local dramas that consume the time of the five commissioners in this vast swath of rural and deeply Republican Nevada. Last spring, it was something new: vo stanley cup ting machines.For months, conspiracy theories fueled on social media by those repeatin stanley cup g lies about former President Donald Trump loss in 2020 inflamed public suspicions about whether election results could be trusted. In response, the commission put a remarkable item on its agenda: Ditch the county voting machines and instead count every vote on every ballot 鈥?more than 20,000 in a typical general election 鈥?entirely by hand.READ MORE: Trump repeats false election fraud claims during speech in WashingtonCommissioners called a parade of witnesses, including three from out of state who insisted voting machines could be hacked and votes flipped without leaving a trace. They said no county could be certain their machines weren ;t accessible via the stanley cup internet and open to tampering by nefarious actors.It was all just too much for Sam Merlino, a Republican who has spent more than two decades administering elections as the county clerk. She simply felt outgunned.It just made me feel helpless, she said in a recent interview from her office in Tonopah, an old silver mining town surrounded by hills of rock and sage Ytnw House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas impeachment
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