From Silver State to Stolen State: Nevada’s 2020 Election Heist Exposed

A bombshell X post that has racked up thousands of views in hours lays bare the mechanics of what many Nevadans have long suspected: the 2020 presidential election in the Silver State was compromised by a deliberate, pandemic-fueled overhaul of voting rules by state Democrats that opened the floodgates to widespread fraud in 2020 and subsequent elections.

The post from @TheSCIF details a catastrophic surge in mail-in ballots—from just 6,300 in 2016 to more than 690,000 in 2020. Citing the COVID-19 emergency as cover, Nevada Democrats unilaterally rammed through universal mail-in voting, unlimited ballot harvesting, unsecured and unmanned ballot drop boxes, extended ballot tabulation, and stripped away basic registration safeguards. 

Nevada's 2020 election fraud exposed by a surge in mail-in ballots from 6.3k in 2016 to over 690k in 2020, using the pandemic to adopt a universal mail-in voting system, removing registration restrictions, with over 40k voting 2x, 20k+ having no address, 2.4k out-of-state… pic.twitter.com/eT2ovu5s56

— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) February 19, 2026

The 2020 result? 

Over 40,000 instances of individuals voting twice, more than 20,000 ballots from voters with no verifiable address, 2,400 from out-of-state addresses, 1,500 cast in the names of deceased voters, and over 4,000 ballots from non-citizens.

These are not “isolated glitches.” They are the predictable outcome of policies that prioritized volume and “access” over security—an all-mail, universal ballot system, sub-standard signature verification, and registration rules so lax that dead people and non-citizens could (and did) participate.

Not mentioned in the viral post, but particularly egregious, was the vote-buying activity on Nevada’s Indian reservations during 2020. Groups like the Nevada Native Vote Project openly promoted raffles offering Visa gift cards (up to $500 grand prizes), electronics, clothing, and native beadwork in exchange for voting—often documenting these incentives on social media while wearing official Biden campaign gear. Federal law prohibits offering expenditures to induce voting, yet these practices targeted tribal voters in areas like the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.

This wasn’t subtle outreach; it was direct bribery that undermined the principle of free and fair elections.

The Nevada GOP publicly called out this cash-for-votes scheme as election fraud, and evidence of such activities was part of the ignored record in subsequent court challenges. Twelve binders of evidence were not reviewed and summarily dismissed by activist judges due to “lack of standing.”

My work is in those binders.

The judges didn’t even open them. Dismissed the case due to lack of standing.

Dems once said voter fraud is a myth. They now say there isn’t enough fraud to change the outcome of elections.

There is. Sen. Masto “won” by less than 8K votes.

— Megan Barth (@ReaganBabe) February 19, 2026

As founding editor of The Nevada Globe, I documented the Nevada GOP, RNC, and Trump campaign’s 2024 lawsuit accusing the state of failing to prevent non-citizen voting and maintain accurate rolls. That suit underscored the Secretary of State’s legal duty to regularly purge ineligible voters—a duty that was clearly ignored in 2020.

In my California Globe coverage, the pattern of obstruction and denial has been relentless:

• In August 2025, I reported that Nevada’s Secretary of State delayed and failed to produce complete voter registration records to the Department of Justice, stonewalling federal efforts to audit the rolls.
• In November 2025, I detailed how Nevada’s Supreme Court ignored evidence of non-citizen voting, deceased voters, and even vote-buying on Indian reservations when it dismissed challenges tied to the so-called “fake electors” case—evidence the court simply pretended did not exist.
• In December 2025, the DOJ was forced to sue Nevada’s Secretary of State for refusing to hand over unredacted voter rolls, a move that can only be interpreted as an attempt to hide the scale of the problem.
• Just last month, in January 2026, I exposed how Nevada Democrats’ campaign coffers are stuffed with out-of-state cash and ActBlue funds even as fraud probes swirl around the system that delivered their victories.

And the rot didn’t stop in 2020.

This latest exposure arrives at a critical moment. Nevada remains ground zero in the battle for election integrity, and the data aligns with the very irregularities my reporting has highlighted for years—including the disturbing pattern of vote buying on Indian reservations that I and others exposed as part of the broader 2020 fraud claims, and the ongoing failure to maintain clean voter rolls, exemplified by Washoe County’s inaction ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Follow-up data referenced in replies to the viral post shows that in 2022, Clark County alone had 19,211 voters with no residential address and over 102,000 voters who were registered after they had already cast ballots. These are not anomalies; they are features of a system designed to make fraud easy and detection nearly impossible.

Compounding these issues, Washoe County—one of Nevada’s key battleground counties—failed to remove over 30,000 potentially ineligible or inactive voters from its rolls prior to the 2022 midterm election. Despite ongoing concerns about bloated and inaccurate voter lists, routine list maintenance processes were delayed or insufficient, leaving tens of thousands of names that should have been flagged, inactivated, or canceled, lingering on the active rolls. 

This inaction mirrored the broader statewide neglect of voter roll maintenance, allowing the potential for ghost voters and other irregularities to persist into yet another critical election cycle, but the damage had already been done.

These problems with voter registration addresses were spotlighted by J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), whose investigations and lawsuits I covered extensively in The Nevada Globe. Adams highlighted cases where voters were registered at clearly non-residential commercial addresses—strip clubs, casinos, gas stations, bars, and other businesses where no one could reasonably live—in both Clark and Washoe Counties. 

In Clark County, PILF’s efforts forced officials to investigate and ultimately remove over 100,000 improper registrations before the 2024 election, preventing mail ballots from being sent to such locations. Similar issues persisted in Washoe County, where lawsuits sought to compel investigations into dozens of suspect commercial addresses. Adams has repeatedly emphasized that Nevada’s automatic mail-ballot system demands far stricter address verification, warning that without aggressive cleanup, ballots go to improper or fraudulent locations, eroding election security.

These irregularities take on even greater significance when viewed against Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s razor-thin 2022 reelection “victory” over Republican Adam Laxalt. Cortez Masto won by a margin of just 7,928 votes statewide—498,316 to 490,388, or roughly 0.78 percentage points—making it the closest Senate race of the 2022 cycle.

According to a PILF report, in 2022–95,556 ballots were sent to an undeliverable or “bad” address and another 8,036 were rejected upon receipt. Another 1.2 million ballots never came back to officials for counting. In other words, 71.5 percent of mailed ballots are unaccounted for in the 2022 election. This is what happens when Democrats eliminate chain of custody and ignore mandatory voter roll maintenance.

In summary of their review, PILF notes:

As states expand mail voting, Nevada’s 2022 midterm elections offer an alarming case study of close results as they relate to rejected, unreturned, and undeliverable ballots. Nevada’s U.S. Senate race was ultimately called four days later on a margin of 7,928 votes, which determined party control for the chamber. A total of 8,036 rejected ballots out of nearly 513,000 returned may not seem significant, but in this context, it is a reasonable question as to what can be done to reduce the failure rates.

With thousands of questionable registrations and voter roll maintenance failures in Clark and Washoe Counties (which dominate Nevada’s electorate), the narrow outcome raises profound questions about whether clean, accurate rolls could have altered the result.

Nevada Democrats and their media allies have spent years gaslighting the public with the mantra “no evidence of widespread fraud”—changing their prior tune that “voter fraud is a myth.” Yet every time the data is allowed to surface—through lawsuits, FOIAs, citizen audits, or public exposures—the same issues reappear: bloated rolls, ballots from the dead, non-citizens voting, double voting, ballots with ZERO chain of custody, vote buying on reservations, and chronic failures to purge ineligible voters before major elections.

The Trump administration’s pardon of the six Nevada Republicans who acted as alternate electors was a necessary corrective to a corrupt process, yet politically-motivated state charges against them still grind forward. 

Meanwhile, the real fraudsters—those who orchestrated or benefited from the 2020 irregularities—remain untouched.

The American people deserve better. Nevada voters deserve better.

Without full forensic audits of 2020 and 2022 ballots, every Nevada election will carry the asterisk of 2020.

With a democratic legislative majority that mirrors their radical colleagues in California, sweeping legislative reforms like strict photo ID, no universal mail-in, same-day registration bans, mandatory voter-roll maintenance with aggressive pre-election purges, the elimination of unlimited ballot harvesting, elections results on election night, and prohibitions on any form of inducement—are a pipe dream. Nevada Democrats will continue to protect the their machine that stole the state.

The only saving grace to bring an ounce of security to Nevada’s elections is Voter ID. A ballot measure that has been endorsed by Governor Joe Lombardo and passed by 72 percent of Nevadans in the last election. The ballot measure, Question 7, must pass again in November 2026 to enshrine Voter ID in the Nevada Constitution.

Without this safeguard, the Silver State can be referred to as the Stolen State. The data is no longer hidden.  

Megan Barth is the Executive Editor of The California Globe and the former founding editor of The Nevada Globe. Her investigative work on election integrity has been cited across national conservative media.