A BLIND woman who says she was denied the chance to vote in Nevada has claimed the election is being "stolen" from Donald Trump - and she fully supports his lawsuit.
Jill Stokke, 79, made a brief statement at the Trump campaign press conference in Nevada to explain how when she came to vote in person and was told her vote had been submitted by mail - even though she says she never received it.
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Now in an exclusive interview with The Sun she said: "I'm legally blind, so my friend took me to vote, but when I got there, they told me I had already voted.
"They had mailed out all the ballots and somehow somebody got my ballot before I got it and somebody got my roommate's ballot before he got it. And they mailed them in and voted for us.
"I went home and I was sad but then I woke up the next morning and I was angry.
"My computer guy who helps me, I had him email the White House, the governor, the secretary of state for Nevada. I called all the local TV channels. Later in the day I called the FBI and reported the crime that was done to me.
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"It might seem like a minor crime but it is a crime to steal people's ballots and their right to vote. So I pulled out all the stops."
Jill, who says she would have voted Trump, believes there may be others like her and her room mate who were denied the chance to vote.
"My room mate, who also couldn't vote, he got a letter saying his signature does not match the one on the mail-in ballot they got," she said.
"But he has a lot of health problems, he doesn't get out very much and I can understand why he didn't go and take care of his vote."
The Trump campaign has announced a federal lawsuit to stop the counting of what it calls "illegal votes" in Nevada - claiming to have evidence that dead and non-resident people have cast ballots during the 2020 election.
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Trump has also filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia and vows to sue every state - as a path to victory over Democratic candidate Joe Biden narrows for the President.
However, a number of Republicans have poured scorn on Trump's attempts to undermine the credibility of the election.
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum called Trump’s claims “not factual”, “dangerous' and “incendiary.”
Jill says she supports Trump's lawsuits - and believes the alleged vote tampering in her state and others may have cost the president the election.
"Trump won the election," she said.
"They're trying to steal it and they may steal it. But Trump won, of that I'm certain.
"There are dead people who have been voting here. I'm not saying the Republicans are perfect by any means but they don't play dirty tricks like the Democrats do."
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After Jill was told she couldn't vote at her local polling station at the Community College of Southern Nevada, Charleston campus, she was told to go to the Clark County Office of Elections to complain.
In a statement to Channel Eight Las Vegas, the office said they had offered Jill a ballot if she would attest her account in writing.
But Jill disputes this claim, saying she was asked to attest who stole her ballot in writing - but could not because she didn't know.
"They [the elections office] lied on TV and said, 'We offered her another ballot that she refused to take it'.
"Believe me with what I've been through the last week and a half, all I wanted was to be able to vote.
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"I would have never said no if they in truth offered me a ballot to vote so the department of elections lied.
"Then on the TV they went further and said 'We have no fraud in Nevada, no corruption', which is a blatant lie.
"They've been making out I'm a liar who refused to vote and just a troublemaker but it's not true."
Now Jill is still hoping she gets to cast her vote.
"All I want to do now is have the criminal investigator find out the facts and make it possible for me to vote, there's 13 days after the election that could possibly happen," she said.
"Unless the local Republican lawyer wants to call and I need to do anything, I'm done I won't be doing any more press conferences.
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"I'm getting on with my life. I live my life in spite of, not because of, people."
The Sun reached out to the Clark County Office of Elections for comment.
