Look forward to sharing more of “The Story” around the world! Key takeaway: Education is paramount (and too many female ophthalmologists & patients in the Middle East apply eyeliner to their waterline!) Lazreg Sihem from Algeria and discussed how we can better educate clinicians and patients worldwide on eye-safe cosmetics. And, very proud of Dad who gave the Keynote and received an award and recognition for his global achievements. Great honor to be on stage with my father, David Sullivan, and Stefano Barabino from Milano. Nevada ought to be a state that wins praise for its streamlined elections, not a state that is forever stuck in the year 2020.Whirlwind visit to Abu Dhabi to present at the 20th Emirates Society of Ophthalmology Conference - about how cosmetics impact the ocular surface. We believe that a secure and transparent voting process will strengthen voters’ faith in the system, which will increase voter participation. But is it “convenient” to wait for election results for a week after Election Day? Should we allow Nevada to be a national and international embarrassment every two years, as we take weeks to deliver election results for the sake of “convenience”? In his response to the governor’s State of the State, Yeager doubled down on the notion that voting should be as convenient as possible in Nevada. Speaker Steve Yeager recently said that these election reforms would be a “non-starter” for the Democrats, and that they refuse to scale back any of the mail-in voting policies implemented during the pandemic. To be frank, it seems that the Democrats are still stuck in the COVID-19 dark ages, while Republicans are fighting to update and streamline Nevada’s election laws. One columnist at the Las Vegas Review Journal has shown, in two elections now, that the Clark County registrar failed to set aside mismatched signatures more than half the time. Governor DeSantis of Florida recently created a new police unit to combat election fraud, but again, this heightened security was met with higher voter turnout and participation in early and mail voting.īut for Nevada Democrats, progress means relying on understaffed county registrars to tediously perform signature verification, spending $14 million on mailing ballots to nearly 1 million people who did not ask for them and did not end up voting, and allowing anyone to harvest and turn in as many ballots as they please without ever showing an ID. Despite Joe Biden’s radical claim that Georgia’s secure election laws are a "Jim Crow 2.0" of voter suppression, the University of Georgia found that African American voters in Georgia overwhelmingly approved of Georgia’s election laws and voting system. Georgia’s turnout in 2022 was 52.7% and Nevada was only 45.2% according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Rather than suppress the vote as Democrats claim, these policies have been met with increased voter trust and voter turnout over the years. To receive an absentee ballot in Georgia, voters must present ID. In Georgia, for example, mail-in ballots are not indiscriminately mailed to every single registered voter, voters are not automatically registered upon visiting the DMV, and ballot harvesting is illegal. This would bring Nevada in line with some of the states that have much higher voter turnout. Assemblywomen Jill Dickman, Heidi Kasama and Alexis Hansen also will present bills to increase election integrity in Nevada. Assemblyman Toby Yurek’s bill calls for an election investigation unit to search for and expose any fraud. Assemblyman Ken Gray has prepared a bill that requires that ballots to be counted be received no later than 5 p.m. This session, Assemblyman Gregory Hafen will present a bill that makes photo ID a requirement to vote in Nevada. The Republicans of the Nevada Assembly have prepared bills to meet the governor’s goal of streamlined, modern, and secure elections. Nevadans deserve to have trust in our vote-counting system, and Nevadans deserve to know who won on election night. Nevada should be up-to-speed with a timely and secure election process, following the lead of other states that experienced much higher midterm turnout than Nevada - most notably Florida and Georgia. Governor Lombardo is right, it’s time to update Nevada’s election laws. Leadership consists of Jill Dickman, Rich DeLong, Danielle Gallant and P.K. This opinion column was submitted by the leadership of the Republican Caucus of the Assembly.
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