Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.
A tribunal bid widening the no-electioneering portion astatine the Desert Breeze Community Center polling tract volition stay successful effect done Election Day, a Clark County justice ruled Monday, aft the region agreed not to contention it.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, which sought the order, said voters determination were followed, filmed and, successful 1 case, deed successful the look with a megaphone.
District Judge Joe Hardy Jr.’s bid requires the region to dainty the commencement of the astir 200-foot pathway starring to the polls, not the building’s door, arsenic the polling-place entranceway nether the state’s 100-foot electioneering ban. Desert Breeze is besides an Election Day polling site.
Hardy archetypal issued the bid Thursday evening, hours aft the ACLU sued successful Clark County District Court, naming the county, Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo and 3 unnamed women it accuses of harassing voters.
At Monday’s hearing, ACLU of Nevada elder unit lawyer Sadmira Ramic said the caller no-electioneering country was designated Friday and that predetermination observers reported it had resolved the problems, according to tribunal minutes.
Gia McGillivray, an lawyer representing the county, agreed, saying the tract had been calmer and that the region would travel the court’s orders. Hardy besides waived a $500 enslaved helium had required of the ACLU, citing the county’s cooperation.
“The region is successful receipt of the tribunal bid and is complying,” Jennifer Cooper, Clark County’s main communications and strategy officer, wrote successful a connection Friday. “The region has worked diligently to navigate the assemblage issues astatine Desert Breeze and the nationalist should proceed to consciousness harmless exercising their close to vote.”
The ACLU’s suit cites aggregate incidents astatine the site. One came Oct. 17, the archetypal time of aboriginal voting. Karel Bouley, a talk-show big who walks his work dog, Ember, regular astatine Desert Breeze, said helium arrived that time to ballot and recovered a pistillate with a megaphone shouting astatine voters. The woman, who has not been publically identified, is referred to successful tribunal documents arsenic Jane Doe No. 1. The Sun could not scope her for comment.
The ACLU’s ailment puts Bouley’s accomplishment astir 11:30 a.m. As helium passed the woman, Bouley said, she shouted astatine him to ballot nary connected Question 6, the ballot measurement that would enshrine termination rights successful the Nevada Constitution.
“I crook and look astatine her, and I go, ‘Well, I enactment a woman’s close to choose, truthful I’ll beryllium voting yes,’” Bouley said. He said she past told him to spell person enactment with his dog. Bouley started walking distant and heard an antigay slur. He said helium assumed it was the pistillate who said it due to the fact that nary 1 other was nearby.
“I crook astir and I conscionable say, ‘Really? I disagree with you connected policy, and you’re going to personally onslaught me?’” Bouley said. From there, Bouley said, helium went wrong and told canvass workers what had happened, and they replied that the pistillate was lasting extracurricular the archetypal 100-foot portion wherever authorities instrumentality bars electioneering, meaning thing could beryllium done astir it.
After casting his ballot, Bouley asked whether determination was different exit. Poll workers told him determination was not, helium said. On his mode backmost to the parking lot, Bouley had different brushwood with the pistillate — 1 captured successful a video the ACLU posted, which led Bouley to link with the group.
As helium walked past, Bouley said, the pistillate told him she had a achromatic belt. He told her that was intolerable “because you person nary manner sense.” She followed him, shouting done the megaphone, helium said. He turned astir and dared her to deed him.
“She lifts up the bullhorn and puts it straight successful my face,” Bouley said. “My chin is engulfed by it.” Bouley, who has a backmost injury, said helium stepped guardant to support his equilibrium with his canine down him, and his look touched the megaphone. He said she past struck him successful the look with it.
“I propulsion my caput backmost and say, ‘Wow, you assaulted me!’ But she’s screaming, ‘Oh no, you assaulted me!’” Bouley said. He said she deed him again connected the near shoulder. A bystander told him his articulator was bleeding, helium said.
The pistillate told constabulary that Bouley had assaulted her, according to the ACLU’s complaint. An predetermination perceiver showed officers video of the encounter, and 1 serviceman said the pistillate had intelligibly pushed the megaphone into Bouley’s face, the ailment said. She was not arrested, and Bouley maintains that helium did not deed her. Metro Police provided an lawsuit fig for the incidental but had not said arsenic of work clip whether a study was written, wherefore the pistillate was not arrested oregon whether officers would enforce the tribunal order.
Bouley said helium went to the exigency country days aboriginal with an irregular heartbeat, which helium attributed to stress. “She’s a scorpion. She happened to sting me,” helium said. “But that being said, wherefore was she allowed to beryllium determination to sting me?”
Bouley’s was not the lone alleged lawsuit of elector intimidation astatine the site. On Oct. 24, astatine slightest 7 radical blocked the pathway, and 1 followed a elector each the mode to the voting country portion filming, according to the ACLU complaint. When told they couldn’t grounds voters, the idiosyncratic replied, “I tin grounds anyone I want.” In different instance, 2 voters climbed implicit rocks to debar radical gathered astatine the extremity of the path, the ailment said.
ACLU of Nevada Executive Director Athar Haseebullah said helium knows of astatine slightest 1 elector who went to a antithetic polling site, and that “multiple people” person told him they’ve avoided Desert Breeze. The problem, helium said, was the site’s layout — specifically, a azygous constrictive pathway that helium called “a gauntlet of intimidation.” The ailment describes the pathway arsenic astir 200 feet agelong and 10 to 20 feet wide. It is the lone mode into the voting country astatine Desert Breeze, and until Thursday’s order, the 100-foot buffer was measured from the building’s door, leaving astir fractional of that way unfastened to electioneering.
Moving the entranceway to the commencement of the way doesn’t soundlessness anyone, Haseebullah said. “They could inactive basal 100 feet distant and electioneer each they want,” helium said. “Voter intimidation and artillery are not protected First Amendment activities.”
Haseebullah besides faulted constabulary for not arresting “the idiosyncratic who some assaulted an idiosyncratic and was engaging successful intimidation against others.”
A spokesperson for Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said Aguilar spoke with Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill astir the incident. “Voters and canvass workers should consciousness harmless erstwhile they’re voting and moving — everyone deserves a escaped and just election, and a harmless situation to workout their law close to vote,” Aguilar said successful a statement.
Bouley — who told the Sun he’s faced online harassment aft the incidental — said the bid is simply a triumph for each voter, not conscionable him.
“Whether you’re Diana Ross oregon Karel oregon that woman with the bullhorn, erstwhile it comes to voting, we’re each adjacent and person the aforesaid right. And so, erstwhile she did that to me, she did that to each voter,” Bouley said. “I see it a triumph for each the voters, due to the fact that present you tin locomotion up that pathway without anybody screaming and yelling astatine you, passing you pamphlets. You tin conscionable locomotion up to the polls successful bid arsenic you should beryllium capable to.”
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