拉斯维加斯——内华达州共和党投票谴责国务卿，指责她未能充分调查2020年的欺诈指控选举。她说，没有广泛的欺诈行为，她自己的政党攻击她拒绝“将我的拇指放在民主的天平上”。
内华达州唯一的共和党全州办公室主任芭芭拉·塞加夫斯基(Barbara Cegavske)表示，她的政党成员对选举结果感到失望，并认为发生了欺诈行为，“尽管完全缺乏证据支持这一观点”。
自2014年以来一直监督该州选举的切加夫斯基一再辩称，尽管遭到总统的攻击，选举结果是可靠和准确的唐纳德·特朗普和其他共和党人。
内华达州是前特朗普试图用诉讼和阴谋论颠覆2020年11月选举结果的州之一。共和国总统乔·拜登在西部摇摆州以2个百分点击败特朗普，即近3.4万张选票。
“遗憾的是，我自己政党的成员决定谴责我，只是因为他们对2020年选举的结果感到失望。切加夫斯克在周日的一份声明中说:“虽然在我担任民选官员的二十多年里，我一直忠于内华达州共和党，但我坚定不移地致力于以中立、无党派的方式监督选举和管理内华达州的选举法。”“我的工作是履行内华达州立法机关赋予我的职责，而不是为该州共和党挑水，或者把我的拇指放在民主的天平上。不幸的是，我自己的政党成员仍然认为2020年大选是由欺诈造成的——不知何故，我也参与了其中——尽管完全缺乏证据支持这一观点。”
一名未经授权公开发言的共和党官员向美联社证实，该党执政成员在州府卡森市的一次会议上以126票对112票通过了这项措施。
该州共和党执行董事杰西卡·汉森(Jessica Hanson)从该党发出声明，指出周六的不信任投票“以微弱优势通过”，并表示这是在围绕选举进行“健康辩论”之后发生的。
“内华达州共和党对我们选出的官员要求很高。因此，本周末，该党发出了一个明确的信息，即我们的官员必须为人民工作，我们要求我们各级政府的代表坚持他们的就职宣誓，”该党说。
从谴责决议的副本来看，不清楚谴责会带来什么样的惩罚。汉森没有立即回复寻求对处罚发表评论的消息。
今年3月，内华达州共和党主席迈克尔·麦克唐纳向塞加夫斯基的办公室提交了四个盒子，他和其他共和党领导人表示，其中包含12万多起选民欺诈事件的证据。
但塞加夫斯基说，在审查了这些报告后，只有3963份违反选举诚信的报告提交。她的办公室表示，其中一些报告已经由她的办公室调查，并正在审查其他报告，以确定是否有必要进行调查。
国务卿允许人们填写两页的选举诚信违规表格，如果他们认为他们目睹了人们违反选举法，工作人员随后会进行调查。
不信任投票首先由《内华达独立报》报道。
最近几个月，少数共和党人在发现自己与特朗普及其支持者不和后，受到了自己政党的指责，塞加夫斯基就是其中之一。北卡罗来纳州、路易斯安那州和阿拉斯加州的州共和党投票谴责美国参议员理查德·伯尔(Richard Burr)、比尔·卡西迪(Bill)和莉萨·穆尔科斯基在特朗普的第二次弹劾审判中投票给特朗普定罪，怀俄明州共和党(Wyoming GOP)谴责美国共和党众议员利兹·切尼(Liz Cheney)投票弹劾特朗普。亚利桑那州共和党在1月份投票谴责参议员约翰·麦凯恩的遗孀辛迪·麦凯恩和前参议员杰夫·弗雷克，两人都支持拜登，州长道格·杜西签署了拜登在该州获胜的证明。
Nevada GOP censures elections official who defended results
LAS VEGAS -- Nevada’s Republican Party voted to censure the secretary of state, accusing her of failing to fully investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020election. She says there was no widespread fraud and that her own party is attacking her for refusing to “put my thumb on the scale of democracy.”
Barbara Cegavske, the only Republican statewide office holder in Nevada, said members of her party are disappointed with the election results and believe fraud occurred “despite a complete lack of evidence to support that belief.”
Cegavske, who has overseen elections in the state since 2014, has repeatedly defended the results as reliable and accurate despite attacks from PresidentDonald Trumpand other Republicans.
Nevada is among the states where former Trump sought to subvert results from the November 2020 election with lawsuits and conspiracy theories. PresidentJoe Bidendefeated Trump in the Western swing state by 2 percentage points, or nearly 34,000 votes.
“Regrettably, members of my own political party have decided to censure me simply because they are disappointed with the outcome of the 2020 election. While I have been loyal to the Nevada Republican Party during my over two decades as an elected official, I have been unwavering in my commitment to oversee elections and administer Nevada’s election laws in a neutral, nonpartisan manner,” Cegavske said in a statement Sunday. “My job is to carry out the duties of my office as enacted by the Nevada Legislature, not carry water for the state GOP or put my thumb on the scale of democracy. Unfortunately, members of my own party continue to believe the 2020 general election was wrought with fraud — and that somehow I had a part in it — despite a complete lack of evidence to support that belief.”
A GOP official who was unauthorized to speak publicly confirmed to The Associated Press that the measure passed on a 126-112 vote by the party’s governing members at a meeting in the state capital, Carson City.
Jessica Hanson, the executive director of the state GOP, sent a statement from the party noting that the censure vote on Saturday “passed narrowly” and said it occurred following “a healthy debate” over the election.
“The Nevada Republican Party holds our elected officials to a high standard. As such, this weekend the party sent a clear message that our officials must work for the people and we demand that our representatives at all levels of government uphold their Oath of Office,” the party said.
It wasn't clear from a copy of the censure resolution what punishment the censure entailed. Hanson did not immediately return a message seeking comment on the punishment.
In March, Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald presented four boxes to Cegavske's office that he and other Republican leaders said contained proof of more than 120,000 instances of voter fraud.
But Cegavske said after reviewing the reports, there were only 3,963 Election Integrity Violation reports submitted. Her office said a number of those reports were already under investigation by her office and it was reviewing the others reports to determine if an investigation was warranted.
The secretary of state allows people to fill out the two-page Election Integrity Violation forms when they believe they have witnessed people breaking election laws, which staff subsequently investigate.
The censure vote was first reported by The Nevada Independent.
Cegavske is among a handful of Republicans who have been censured by their own parties in recent months after finding themselves at odds with Trump and his supporters. State Republican parties in North Carolina, Louisiana and Alaska voted to censure U.S. Sens. Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy and Lisa Murkowski for their votes to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial, and the Wyoming GOP censured Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach Trump. Arizona's Republican Party in January voted to censure Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain and former Sen. Jeff Flake, both of whom endorsed Biden, and Gov. Doug Ducey, who signed a certification of Biden's victory in that state.
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