There will be no resolution, despite the need to take it down to the studs…
Picon sort of “zones out” when the idea of an election overhaul resolution comes up at the Washoe County Board of County Commission Meetings. We have not had time to get into the muck up in the Registrar of Voters office. Many residents with far more time than Picon, and far more money, to offer a ‘prove me wrong’ bounty have brought glaring public scrutiny to the Registrar of Voters office, and the machines versus paper ballots. Picon has watched dozens of citizens give public comments showing ballots they have received for deceased family members. It appears the voter rolls have not been ‘cleansed’ to include updating registration lists as voters die, move, or otherwise become ineligible, and this is necessary and important. Picon doesn’t need to add to the chaos of the Registrar of Voter’s office, you know the one that needs to be torn down to the studs per County Manager Eric Brown to the Reno Gazette Journal.
What Picon has investigated at length, are the “threats” we have heard have been made to the Registrar of Voters, employees in the ROV office, and volunteers, that Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill and County Manager Eric Brown make comments about on a somewhat regular basis. At this point through public records, we have not been able to confirm there has been a single documented threat. Picon has asked for public records regarding any documented threats to the ROV’s office going back to 2020, via Washoe County 311, the Washoe County District Attorney, the Nevada Attorney General, the Nevada Secretary of State, and the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office. So far, we’ve got nothing, no records showing a threat, nor a Sheriff’s report, but we’ll be tackling that topic in another article, based on a new document we received.
Picon was sent these election resolution records from one of our readers, Penny Brock, who questioned what Commission Chair Alexis Hill had referenced during a commission meeting back in January. Ms. Brock requested public records in January 2024, and was stalled until March 1, 2024. The county and state have forgotten the five-day NRS rule regarding public records, and seem to hide behind a claimed overload of work to delay their responses.
Ms. Brock has a problem with the Secretary of State saying ‘no’ to allowing Commissioner Jeanne Herman’s Election Integrity Resolution to be placed on the commissioner’s agenda when the Washoe County District Attorney’s has found a few redeeming qualities in it. The major question here is why Commissioner Herman nor Commissioner Clark can get anything of importance on the Washoe County Board of County Commissioner’s Agenda.
Both Herman and now Clark have brought forward an election resolution. Clark went on the record at the commission meeting in February 2024, that he was submitting a resolution due to Herman being turned down without anyone reaching out to her to explain why. Clark told us, “I don’t care who wrote it, I submitted the resolution because after nine years Jeanne deserves better. I was told at a Conservative Talk Lunch in February 2024, Tracey Hilton-Thomas claimed she had written the resolution for Commissioner Herman while on the phone with her. I don’t know who wrote it, but I’ll submit it. As I said on the dais, Mickey Mouse could have written it and I’ll submit it. I think Commission Herman deserves an explanation.” Clark went on to tell us that he is hopeful of a meeting with the Secretary of State’s office shortly. He said, “I just want to have them walk me through Commissioner Herman’s resolution, the reasons for their rejection, and how this moved from the District Attorney’s office to the Secretary of State. Simple stuff.”
Ms. Brock has made available to us the public records she received, and we thought we’d let our readers judge for themselves.
