Ace In The Hole

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  • As Nevada community fights a lithium mine, a rare fish and its haven may be an ace in the hole. [TNI]
  • “Untouchable”: Nevada state workers have few ways to hold managers accountable for misconduct. [TNI]
  • Lawmakers stress need to look beyond red light cameras and other “back end” traffic safety measures. [Nevada Current]
  • Voter ID requirement amendment qualifies for ballot, group announces. [Nevada Current]
  • Nearly 250 banned in “order out corridor” law in downtown Las Vegas. [RJ]
  • 17-year-old from England arrested in cyber hackings targeting MGM Resorts. [RJ]
  • Vegas pizza restaurants fined for violating child labor laws. [8NewsNow]
  • Fiore pleads not guilty in alleged charity scheme. [Fox5Vegas]
  • From the Nevada Supreme Court website: The Nevada Supreme Court was impacted by the global CrowdStrike issue. As a result, any Nevada Appellate Court filing originally due on Friday, July 19, 2024, will be granted an extension to today, Monday, July 22, 2024. Our dedicated technical team was able to recover within 24 hours, and all services have been restored. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.
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Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 10:43 am

First!

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 11:54 am

It’s not just the state. The City government is even worse. Entrenched long term employees who are mediocre at best but have the friends in the right places rule by fear and intimidation. It’s disgusting that public jobs and public employees are managed like this.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 11:56 am
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It’s one of the reasons the City Manager sent an email last week warning of repercussions from the Badlands debacle. That situation was mishandled from Day 1 and there will be zero accountability for any of the people who did it.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 12:37 pm
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No different from the federal agencies. No accountability, no consequences.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 12:46 pm

Voter ID
Why is this an issues for some people? The only argument I have heard is that it is burdensome to obtain government issued ID, generally mentioning the poor and disabled.

Yet, you have to have ID to to obtain food stamps and other welfare, social security benefits, medicare/medicaid, drive, open a bank account, cash a check, buy a gun, obtain credit, etc etc.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 12:54 pm
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You need to go volunteer for the veteran’s project through the AG’s office or help someone through legal aid. If you’ve lost everything, getting something as basic as an ID is a huge deal. It seems so simple for our perspective, but it’s not really. It can be very burdensome.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 1:11 pm
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You’re out of your mind and defending racist stereotypes.

There are methods and programs that help the disenfranchised get IDs. FFS, recently released long tim inmates get time out of the halfway house and waived fees to get ID.

Your opinion is based upon lies.

Anon
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July 23, 2024 9:22 am
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fuck the disenfranchised. If you dont pay taxes and own property, and cant get your ass to the ballot box on election day, then you are SOL.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 9:23 am
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FYI, Legal Aid requires applicants to have valid government identification to receive legal services.

Low income individuals have valid government identification because it is necessary to receive welfare benefits and IRS refunds.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 1:09 pm
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You need ID to buy Advil Cold and Sinus.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 1:19 pm
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None of those other items are necessary for a democracy. Voting is supposed to be a check on government. If you can deny the right to vote you can eliminate your opposition or checks on your power.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 1:22 pm
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True. Which the very reason you want Voter ID. One person, One vote.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 2:21 pm
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Well shit, there goes my opinion that only US Citizens should have the right to vote.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 3:09 pm
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That’s not an opinion, that is a fact. But having ID =/= being a US citizen.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 3:26 pm
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No, it’s an opinion. In some municipalities, all residents do have the right to vote in the municipal elections, regardless of citizenship. If you want to restrict the above statement to federal elections, you should be aware that 3.2 million U.S. citizens on an island do not have the right to vote for President.

If the statement was “All U.S. citizens should have the right to vote in all federal elections,” you’d have my agreement. But that’s still aspirational.

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July 22, 2024 2:14 pm
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David O’Connor was a 77 year old Navy veteran who had the bad idea to live in Tennessee. After holding a drivers license for 61 years and in 4 states, including a CDL, TN told him the documents he had (including his birth certificate from Canada showing both parents were US citizens) weren’t good enough to renew his license, and they cancelled it. He can’t get an ID from Tennessee. Tell me, how does Voter ID help him?

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 2:23 pm
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There are other forms of IDs. Also, I am certain that there are appeal rights and procedures. I do not accept your example.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 2:47 pm
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“Other forms of IDs” that the proposed Voter ID law rejects. The only acceptable forms are NV DL, government issued ID card (state, federal, or military), passport, Nevada CCW (requires ID to get), Tribal photo ID, or Nevada college ID.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 3:15 pm
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You literally name other forms of IDs. Ya boy can figure it out. Stop pretending that there are no options.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 2:53 pm
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>Also, I am certain that there are appeal rights and procedures.

That kinda proves the point my dude. People shouldn’t have to file appeals against the government just to be able to vote?

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 3:15 pm
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Horseshit.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 7:53 pm
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On your theory, one person using 3 different names, could vote 3 times, because he/she is not required to identify his/her self at a polling location.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 23, 2024 8:12 am
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or 300

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 9:17 am
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@8:12
Probably not. I think the Dems limit payments to 3 voting receipts per person.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 4:56 pm
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Those appeal rights are going to do him a great amount of good standing at his polling place being told that he has been disenfranchised.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 8:13 am
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Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 7:50 pm
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Move to Nevada. Everyone can get an ID here.
But FYI
Acceptable forms of government-issued photo identification in Tennessee include12:
Tennessee driver’s license with your photo
United States Passport
Photo ID issued by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Tennessee Identification License (not valid for driving)
Other photo ID issued by Tennessee or U.S. government including U.S. military ID or TN handgun permit
If you’re a Tennessee resident without a driver’s license, you can apply for a Tennessee identification card through the Driver Services Division of the Department of Safety3.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 8:19 pm
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@2:14
With regard to David O’Connor. Most birth certificate issues are because the applicant has the hospital issued birth certificate. What is needed is the birth certif from whatever is the official registrar in that province.
Mr. O’Conner, if he really is a Vet, will have discharged military ID, registration for VA benefits, a DD-214 and Social Security enrollment. If all paper work is lost, he can get copies. Something about your story does not ring true.
Finally, if you are a concerned attorney, maybe you should help him?

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 12:37 am
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It took filing a federal lawsuit to get any movement.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/veteran-who-lost-drivers-license-because-tn-said-he-wasnt-a-u-s-citizen-gets-welcome-news-from-the-state

And his discharge paperwork said US citizen. Tennessee did not care.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 8:14 am
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Ohhhhhh. The left and their lies. Kind of like the coat hanger abortions.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 9:59 am
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“Discharged military ID” isn’t a thing. They actually take your ID away when you’re discharged.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 5:28 pm
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The population that struggles getting an ID is small, but the problem being solved is nonexistent, so weighing the pros and cons it still doesn’t make any sense.

The obvious solution is to enforce voter ID *and* affirmatively provide a uniform federal ID to everyone legally in the country. That is what they do in Europe, and that’s why no one complains about voter ID over there. But every time Democrats have proposed that obvious solution, Republicans have voted it down. That should tell you something about whether these burdens on voting are really motivated by alleged fears of voter fraud.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 8:16 am
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Show me a single instance in the last ten years where Democrats proposed this as a solution for Voting. Yes, the Republicans are going to oppose a National ID card. Because every time it is proposed it is mandatory.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 9:19 am
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And if there’s one thing Republicans hate, it’s having to have their information in a government database in order to exercise a fundamental right.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 9:43 am
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IFIFY
Republicans, libertarians and anyone who doesn’t trust the government.
If the Feds want to issue a national ID, fine. Don’t mandate it.
Don’t be a dick, Dick.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 10:19 am
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Riiiiight. Don’t mandate obtaining an ID.

Just mandate HAVING the ID to exercise basic rights. Cause that’s totes different.

Anonymous
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July 23, 2024 10:28 am
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Dont mandate the Federal ID for the masses, you obtuse MFR.

Not “the” ID, an ID. Dumbass.

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July 26, 2024 1:12 pm
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The point is to find an extremely rare exception, then use that as the argument against a broad policy. If the issue with voter ID is some people have getting an ID, the solution is to make it more simple (not to not require a voter ID). Anyone who opposed voter ID to vote has ulterior motives.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 1:31 pm

if you are dealing with an elderly person who was born in another country and became a citizen in the distant past and they lost their citizenship papers and birth certificate (not uncommon with the elderly), it can be very challenging to get that person a new ID card.

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July 22, 2024 1:47 pm

Someone just told me that we do not have to file remote appearance notices for the EJDC anymore. Can anyone point me to the order or rule that did away with this requirement, if it in fact exists. Thanks in advance!

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 1:51 pm
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Its up to each department as to what is required. Just check the department’s website; many list if it is required.

anonymous
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July 22, 2024 3:49 pm
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32 (or whatever) different sets of rules, subject to the whim of each Judge I guess.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 5:17 pm
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Yup, welcome to doing Compromise of a Minor’s Claim. Roll the dice and hope you get a Judge that doesn’t make it harder than it has to be.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 23, 2024 10:01 am
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Crockett is retired.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 2:27 pm
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I won’t comment on the correctness of the matter as relayed to you, but I suspect it is a reference to ADKT 0581.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 4:57 pm
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Hint: If you are in Department 31, you must file your ATEAR.

Anonymous
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July 22, 2024 2:00 pm

Traffic enforcement is pointless, it’s ineffective and what’s worse is that traffic engineers know it. Better roadway design is the only way to prevent traffic tragedies.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 6:26 pm

Fiore is being represented by George Kelesis and Michael Sanft.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
July 22, 2024 10:31 pm

Does she have a gaming chair in the courtroom?