Would Anyone Else Work This Hard to Protect Your Vote?
On May 20, 2026, I submitted a sworn complaint to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office identifying approximately 12,465 apparent duplicate voter registrations in Clark County — pulled from the Secretary’s own public data. Same first name, same last name, same birth year, but different voter ID numbers and different addresses. A reviewed subset shows both entries recorded as voting in the 2024 General Election.
Fourteen days of silence later, I filed a formal pre-suit demand under the National Voter Registration Act. The very next day, the Secretary’s office closed my complaint — without auditing a single one of the 12,465 records. They recast it as an individual “residency challenge” and said a professional data analysis doesn’t count as “personal knowledge.”
So I did what the law allows: I filed suit in federal court. Barnhill v. Aguilar, Case No. 2:26-cv-02818-JAD-MDC.
Here’s Where It Stands Now
Secretary Aguilar still hasn’t answered my complaint. Instead, his office asked the Court to pause the whole case indefinitely — pointing to a different, two-year-old lawsuit (RNC v. Aguilar) in front of a different judge, with no end date given for how long that pause would last.
I filed my opposition today, September 30, 2026. I’m asking the Court to:
- Deny the indefinite stay. An open-ended pause isn’t a “moderate” delay — courts have said as much for almost ninety years.
- Consolidate the cases, or coordinate them, so overlapping legal questions get decided once, consistently — without erasing the record-level claims that are unique to mine.
- Give the Court proper notice of the related case under Local Rule 42-1 — notice that, frankly, the Secretary’s office should have filed themselves.
Why Does This Matter to You?
Every election cycle that passes without reconciling these records is a cycle where Nevada’s voter rolls stay less accurate than they should be. That’s not a partisan problem — it’s a maintenance problem, and it’s the Secretary of State’s job to fix it. Asking for delay instead of answering the complaint doesn’t inspire confidence that it’s being taken seriously.
I’m not accusing anyone of fraud. I’m asking for an audit, a reconciliation, and a real duplicate-detection program — the basic upkeep every voter roll in the country needs.
So I’ll ask you plainly: would anyone else work this hard to protect your vote?
This is why I’m running for Secretary of State — not to make noise, but to get results.
Results, Not Noise. #YourIndependentVoice
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Barnhill v. Aguilar — Case Timeline
May 20, 2026 Barnhill submitted a sworn complaint concerning alleged duplicate voter-registration records to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Elections Division and Clark County officials. See Who Will Protect Your Vote?
June 3–4, 2026 Formal notice was sent under the National Voter Registration Act. The Secretary of State’s office closed its file on June 4 without, according to the complaint, disputing the underlying data analysis.
September 4, 2026 Barnhill filed Barnhill v. Aguilar, Case No. 2:26-cv-02818-JAD-MDC, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
September 8, 2026 Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar and the Nevada Attorney General’s office were formally served with the lawsuit.
September 14, 2026 Barnhill filed an ex parte motion asking the Court to authorize him to register as a CM/ECF filing user and receive electronic service in this action under LR IC 2-1(b), since the standard registration process assumes an attorney applicant. See A Small Procedural Fight, With a Bigger Point Behind It.
September 29, 2026 Aguilar moves the Court to suspend my action indefinitely while another action Aguilar is defending against the Republican National Committee has completed. No way, Jose! I oppose the motion and request consolidation with the RNC action.
Latest update: Aguilar seeks to suspend my action-not this time.
