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Democrats have criticized Burdish, accusing him of trying to influence the hotly contested congressional race between Republican Representative Jon Porter and his Democratic challenger, former casino executive Tom Gallagher, in the Third District.

State Republican officials have also distanced themselves from Burdish.

Officials block effort by former GOP official
By Adam Goldman, Associated Press | October 14, 2004

LAS VEGAS -- Elections officials have rebuffed an attempt by a former GOP operative to purge about 17,000 Democrats from the voter rolls in the battleground state of Nevada, where the two presidential candidates are in a dead heat.

Dan Burdish, former head of the state Republican Party, filed a challenge last week claiming the Democrats should be removed from the rolls because they were inactive voters.

But Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax rejected the move Tuesday, saying Burdish could only challenge voters in his precinct, and then only if he has personal knowledge that they are inactive.

"I don't think pulling names off a database equates to personal knowledge," Lomax said.