WASHINGTON -- Nevada's most populous county has provided the U.S. Justice Department special counsel with correspondence that shows lawyers for then-President Donald Trump raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 voting process that were later deemed baseless, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Trump's allies also demanded information about workers who were tasked with counting the votes, a request the county registrar sought to delay out of fear for the workers' safety.
The correspondence was provided by Clark County to Jack Smith, the special counsel tasked with investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election, in response to a subpoena seeking communications between Trump associates and county officials. Smith has issued similar subpoenas to officials in other battleground states, including Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, as prosecutors examine a pressure campaign aimed at keeping Trump in power.
The AP obtained the documents Tuesday through a public records request to Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and which -- along with Nevada more generally -- became a hotbed for conspiracy theories stemming from false claims of election fraud.
The records do not include any communication from Trump himself and do not appear to show attempts to coerce county officials, as Trump tried to do in Georgia. But they do show how Trump's lawyers for weeks positioned themselves for post-election legal challenges in...
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