Military wife accused in GOP voter fraud claim speaks out

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The Trump Campaign this week called out what they claim to be "criminal voter fraud" here in the Silver State.

"We are also confident that there are thousands of people whose votes have been counted that have moved out of Clark County during the pandemic,” said Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s former Attorney General and Co-Chair of the Trump Re-Election campaign.

Laxalt said they have evidence – a list of more than three thousand voters who voted in the 2020 presidential election, but no longer Live in Nevada.

Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria acknowledged that they received the list. He says, however, that it’s not out of the ordinary for voters to not live in Nevada but still be eligible to vote.

"This is a military town,” said Gloria. “We have Nellis Air Force Base. We also have several students who travel out of state to go to school.”

College students and active military are allowed to claim Nevada residency while out of town.

The allegations are upsetting to former Henderson resident Amy Rose, an attorney who still calls Nevada home.

"My husband and I have both been accused of fraud,” said Amy Rose. “We take our duties as citizens very seriously, and it’s just a shock to see that this accusation had been made without any basis in fact."

Rose, a former ACLU lawyer and eight-year Henderson resident, now lives in Davis, California. Her family moved two years ago as her husband, a major in the Air Force, chases his PhD in aerospace engineering. His schooling is paid for by the Air Force.

According to Rose, if you are in a state on orders for the military, families don’t have to change their residency. She says she and her husband's ability to vote in their home state is a state and federal process that families secure with the county registrar.

While Rose currently works with a Bay Area charity that helps homeless veterans, home means Nevada to her family.

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“We were there for so long, got involved in the community,” said Rose. "Where the military vote, it’s considered their home because as military families we are not really able to set down roots in one place that often."

The list provided by the Trump campaign includes full nine-digit ZIP codes, each one only applying to a handful of homes on a single street. Rose says she and her husband cast absentee ballots and confirmed that her current and former ZIP codes align with two supposedly "fraudulent" votes on the list.

She said she believes the allegations weren’t thought through.

“The list has addresses that are literally on Air Force bases,” Rose said. “It says ‘Hill AFB.’ I think it says ‘Beale AFB.’ There’s joint bases.”

In total, the list has 21 separate claims of fraud where an Air Force base is listed as a voter's new address. About 170 other ZIP codes on the list have Army and Navy post office addresses, which are used for active service personnel serving overseas.

Rose says she’s frustrated, having exercised a right that she didn’t think would be used to claim voter fraud.

“The ability to continue to have a voice in our home and to be able to continue to vote there is just so incredibly important,” said Rose.