Nevada tribes seek $117K in legal costs in voting suit

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two Nevada tribes are asking a federal judge to order the state of Nevada and two counties to pay them more than $100,000 in legal expenses in a growing legal fight over alleged violations of the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A judge in Reno ordered Washoe and Mineral counties earlier this month to establish new early voting and Election Day voting sites on two Paiute reservations in northern Nevada after granting an emergency injunction sought by Native Americans suing over equal access to the polls.

Since then, nine additional tribes have asked the secretary of state to take similar action and establish new polling sites on their lands.

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