One of President Donald Trump’s election lawyers told senators that their team’s efforts in Nevada to obtain evidence to file lawsuits were met with denials from relevant election officials.
“Paper [ballot] backups that were supposed to provide such transparency” weren’t given to the team, lawyer Jesse Binnall told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Dec. 16. Binnall said that across the “entire state of Nevada,” there was “zero transparency” from election officials.
On Dec. 4, Judge James Russell rejected the campaign’s lawsuit.
State election officials declared they saw no evidence of voter fraud or irregularities in Nevada that would overturn the result of the election in the state, which has six Electoral College votes.
But in the hearing, Binnall said that Trump’s campaign didn’t have enough time to obtain evidence, as per the judge’s ruling.
“We couldn’t put that into evidence because the court ruled that it was too late,” the lawyer noted on Dec. 16, saying they only had about “three days” to procure evidence of irregularities or fraud.
As they probed the alleged irregularities, Binnall said they were also refused access by state election officials to the code of voting machines for a forensic review or whether “they were hooked up to the internet,“ while accusing the state of ”denying transparency.”
“We weren’t allowed near them ... we weren’t allowed a forensic audit.”
The state election officials, he argued, told Trump’s team that the voting machine software code “is proprietary,” meaning it isn’t open source due to intellectual property rights. Binnall, however, flagged this explanation as problematic as these machines aided in vote counting.
“We were denied [transparency] at every single turn” in Nevada, he said, adding that one Nevada official “locked himself in his office” and wouldn’t open the door when Trump’s lawyers tried to serve him a subpoena.
Officials at the Nevada Secretary of State’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment following Binnall’s remarks.