Michael McDonald, Aug. 14 -- For the second time in two years, a Clark County judge has dismissed criminal charges against six Nevada Republicans who signed a fraudulent electoral certificate in 2021 awarding the state's Electoral College votes to Donald Trump, even though Joe Biden won Nevada by more than 30,000 votes. The ruling, issued Thursday by District Judge Mary Kay Holthus, turned on a structural weakness in Nevada law that the state's Republican governor has twice refused to close.

it was the day the Electoral College met across the country to formally certify Biden's victory. The certificate was sent to federal officials, hoping it would be treated as Nevada's actual electoral result. No official accepted or acted on it. But t...