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A woman stood outside a Las Vegas polling site for hours, shouting at voters as they walked in and out. Police got involved. The ACLU says the episode raises a question Nevada election law doesn’t fully settle: where protest ends and voter intimidation begins.

Las Vegas police responded to the Desert Breeze Community Center on the first day of early voting after a woman carrying a megaphone shouted at voters outside the polling site for several hours and was involved in an altercation with a man leaving the building, according to video captured by witnesses and confirmed by police response.

The confrontation took place more than 100 feet from the voting center itself. Video reviewed by local media showed the woman circling the parking lot and making remarks directed at voters as they entered and exited the building.

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Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, said he was called to the polling site by an election observer. Haseebullah said voter intimidation is not a protected form of expression under the First Amendment, distinguishing it from lawful protest activity that can legally occur outside the buffer zone surrounding a polling place.

The incident occurred the same day Indivisible Las Vegas, a national pro-democracy organizing group, held “No Kings: Vote Early” events at eight locations across the valley, including Desert Breeze, encouraging early turnout through sign-waving, food and voter information booths rather than direct confrontation with individual voters.

More than 37,000 Clark County voters cast ballots in the first three days of early voting this cycle, according to county data, with early voting continuing through Oct. 30 ahead of Election Day.

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The ACLU of Nevada operates a voter protection program during early voting specifically designed to identify and respond to allegations of voter irregularities or intimidation, with volunteers stationed at polling locations across Clark County throughout the early voting period.

Nevada law protects speech outside polling places right up until it crosses into intimidation — and nobody involved in the Desert Breeze incident has drawn that line in exactly the same place. The video is public. Whether anyone faces consequences for it is still an open question heading into the final days of early voting.