“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
Some people never learn.
A leading Democratic official tried to gain additional political advantage in a swing state by taking aim at President Donald Trump’s election security measures and hitting them with both barrels.
Then, a major voting scandal broke out in his home state.
Hundreds of people voted more than once in his state’s most recent presidential election.
Worse yet, he’s the one in charge of overseeing the elections, so he had to report on his own incompetence.
Last week, the office of Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar put out a report stating that his office has confirmed or suspected more than 300 people of voting twice in the state’s 2024 presidential election.
The report says the state has had to open 303 investigations into double-voting in last November’s election.
The SOS office tried to downplay the full extent of the problem: “These 303 potential attempted ‘Double Vote’ complaints represent 0.02% of the 1,487,887 ballots cast in the 2024 General Election,” said the secretary of state’s office, italicizing the sentence for emphasis.
But Aguilar’s own office proves that, not only is the problem real, it’s getting worse all the time.
That’s almost twice as many as the 153 people who voted twice in the 2022 midterms and the 68 people who double-voted in the June primary. (His office let 48 of those 68 slide but referred the rest for investigation or prosecution, with three civil notices.)
All in all, election integrity investigators in the swing state received 867 complaints about double voting in the last two years.
I thought voter fraud was just a conspiracy theory? Clearly not because 182 people voted twice in the 2024 election in Nevada. pic.twitter.com/76tHdUq4yK
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) December 26, 2024
This is a serious infraction—at least, on paper. If the perpetrators are caught and convicted, they can get sentenced to up to four years in jail, in addition to a $5,000 fine.
“One of the basic tenets of democracy is that each person has one vote,” explained the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which chronicles and records laws in place state-by-state.
The outrage over the state’s weak voter laws has Americans up in arms.
“These are felonies, and hopefully, they will receive the maximum penalty. Make examples of them,” said one user.
In Nevada, an investigation into 303 cases of "double voting" in the 2024 election is underway.
Each person attempting to vote twice was caught before casting the second vote.
These are felonies, and hopefully, they will receive the maximum penalty. Make examples of them. pic.twitter.com/jIOr4Fo01M
— Americat 🇺🇸 (@catmurphy209) March 25, 2025
Worse yet, only five of the cases have been closed since November. Most of the violators so far have gotten off with a slap on the wrist. Four of the five got a “civil notice/violation” that carries no jail time, and the other one was “referred to an outside agency.”
Another 298 cases—or 98 percent of the 303 voter fraud allegations in this particular category—remain wide open as of this writing.
That’s a far cry from how Aguilar describes his work. “Nevada runs some of the most safe, secure, and accessible elections in the country. There has never been evidence of widespread fraud here or anywhere else,” he insisted.
“Nevada law has checks and balances in place ensure that our elections work for the voters. The voters of Nevada will continue to be our priority, because access to the ballot box is how our citizens hold government accountable.”
Aguilar vented his anger while criticizing President Trump—for signing an executive order making elections safer.
The March 25 executive order says states have to demand proof that someone is a U.S. citizen before he can be registered to vote, and that states have to complete their vote counts on election day.
That was too much for Aguilar.
“We know that any barrier that would stop an eligible voter from casting their ballot is one barrier too many!” the incensed Democrat said.
Of course, despite election shenanigans, President Trump won Nevada in 2024.
At least things wre better than they were four years earlier.
In the infamous COVID election of 2020, more than 42,000 people cast more than one ballot, according to election attorney Jim Binnall.
So did 19,000 people who were not citizens of the state of Nevada.
Another 1,500 people who were listed as dead voted in 2020 from beyond the grave.
Of course, the election outcome was different, too.
"The [Nevada] election was inevitably riddled with fraud."
Attorney @jbinnall alleges:
•Over 42,000 people voted more than once.
•At least 1,500 dead people are recorded as voting
•More than 19,000 people voted even though they didn’t live in Nevada pic.twitter.com/40CuwPt0ES— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 16, 2020
As incredible as it sounds, no fewer than 26 elections tied in 2023: Both candidates got the exact same number of votes, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
In 2024, the number of elections that ended in an exact tie jumped to 29, and 18 more elections were separated by just one vote. Eight of these 47 elections took place in the swing state of Missouri.
In an American election, truly every vote counts—but they should only count once.