Henderson Voter Drops DOJ Bombshell: Criminal Referral Alleges Cover-Up in 2024 Election Data Wipe.

Nevada readers, if Pastor Andy Michael Thompson’s name rings a bell from our earlier dispatches, you know this Henderson father and pastor has been on a solo mission to pry open the doors of election transparency. From his state Supreme Court appeal fighting voter standing rules to federal court battles over destroyed data, Thompson’s been swinging hard against what he sees as a fortress of secrecy around our votes. Now, on November 14, 2025, he cranked the volume to eleven by mailing a criminal complaint straight to U.S. Attorney Sigal Pearl Chattah in Las Vegas. It’s a referral for a full-blown investigation into possible felonies tied to overwriting 2024 election records, and folks, this one’s got the makings of a plot twist that could keep Washington insiders up at night.

Let’s unpack this without drowning in legalese, because the stakes here boil down to a simple question: Did Nevada officials torch the digital paper trail of last year’s election while lawsuits demanding a peek were piling up? Thompson’s 14-page package, sent via certified mail with return receipt, accuses the Secretary of State’s office of violating two heavy-hitting federal laws. First, 52 U.S.C. § 20702, which slaps up to five years in prison for anyone who willfully fiddles with or destroys records from federal elections. These files, like ballot images and vote logs, must stay locked down for 22 months to let audits or probes happen without a hitch. Second, 18 U.S.C. § 1519, a catch-all for tampering with evidence in any federal matter, carrying the same stiff penalty.

Thompson didn’t mince words in his cover letter. He calls the data overwrite “the practical equivalent of a cover-up,” not because he’s mind-reading motives, but because the tech itself makes recovery impossible. Drawing from National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines (NIST SP 800-88) and Election Assistance Commission certifications, he explains these Dominion Voting Systems updates to version 5.20 weren’t gentle tweaks, they were “purge-level sanitization events.” Think of it like formatting a hard drive: once the old software’s gone, poof, no backups, no traces, no do-overs. And this happened between July 21 and September 30, 2025, smack in the middle of his active cases, including the federal suit we covered last time (2:25-cv-01284-CDS-EJY) and his state appeal (No. 90846).

He copied the big guns: the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Voting Section, the Public Integrity Section, and the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office for the feds, plus Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford and Secretary Francisco V. Aguilar just for notice. Time’s ticking, Thompson warns, because fading memories and scattered witnesses make fresh probes tougher every day. It’s a clock that’s already run out on the data itself, leaving only emails, court filings, and vendor reports as breadcrumbs.

At the heart of his complaint? A bombshell allegation of irregularities in Clark County’s 2024 mail-in ballots that, he says, scream for forensic review, the kind now impossible thanks to the wipe. Thompson claims that when you slice the county’s 443,883 mail-in votes into rolling batches of about 13,000, the percentage opposing Donald Trump dances in “perfect harmony” with the percentage against State Question 3, the measure on open primaries and ranked-choice voting. Up together, down together, for hundreds of thousands of ballots. “This is not normal voting,” he writes flatly. “Real partisan voters don’t synchronize in perfect unison.” He attaches a graphic, vetted by multiple experts he doesn’t name, showing two unrelated choices, one presidential and one on a ballot initiative, rising and falling like synchronized swimmers. To Thompson, that’s the fingerprint of a computer program at work, not flesh-and-blood Nevadans picking their preferences.

It’s a claim that echoes whispers we’ve heard before about batch processing glitches or worse in electronic systems, but dialed up to fraud territory. Question 3 passed narrowly statewide, but Clark County was ground zero, and any whiff of manipulation there could ripple through results that helped shape our congressional map and local races. Thompson insists the Cast Vote Record, the raw digital ledger, was the smoking gun, or at least the only way to chase the smoke. Without it, he argues, the public’s right to verify elections evaporates, gutting the federal safeguards Congress built to protect our republican form of government under Article IV of the Constitution.

This isn’t Thompson pulling punches from thin air. It builds on his federal motions we detailed last month, where Magistrate Judge Elayna J. Youchah denied sanctions and document demands as “premature” because discovery hadn’t kicked off. Thompson fired back with a Rule 72(a) objection, highlighting state admissions like a July 10 email from Chief Deputy AG Gregory D. Ott greenlighting the updates post-summons. He called those denials “laughable,” pointing to three “judicial admissions” of destruction after notice. Now, with courts dragging feet, he’s betting the DOJ won’t.

Of course, the state might counter that updates are routine, backups were made somewhere, or these patterns are just statistical coincidence, like how coffee spills sometimes look like faces in the clouds. Secretary Aguilar’s office hasn’t responded publicly yet, but in past filings, they’ve leaned on compliance with federal retention rules and dismissed spoliation as unproven. And on the ballot sync? Broader 2024 scrutiny, like the Election Truth Alliance’s February 2025 probe into Clark County data anomalies, has flagged oddities in processing, but nothing quite this pointed has hit the headlines. Thompson’s graphic could change that if investigators bite.

The absurdity here? It’s like a blackjack dealer shuffling the deck mid-hand because “new cards arrived,” then telling players to trust the house count when someone yells foul. In Vegas, we’d call that a scam; in elections, it’s supposedly administration. Thompson’s push underscores a deeper itch: Why design systems where the proof of fairness can vanish with a software ping, especially in a swing state where every ballot’s a battleground? It nods to the Constitution’s promise of honest government by the people, not opaque machines shielded by red tape.

If the DOJ greenlights this, expect subpoenas flying and maybe even indictments, forcing Nevada to rethink how it guards vote data. A probe could validate Thompson’s anomalies or debunk them, either way restoring some trust, or at least sunlight. No outcome’s guaranteed, but his referral spotlights how one determined voter can drag national eyes to local lapses.

We’ve tracked Thompson’s arc from state court dismissal to federal denials and now this DOJ hail mary. It shows the grit needed when institutions stonewall questions about our most sacred civic act. Want to help? Fire off an email to U.S. Attorney Chattah’s office or your congressional reps, asking for an update on election record probes. Or volunteer with a group like the Election Truth Alliance to crunch public data yourself. After all, if anomalies like Thompson’s go unchecked, what stops the next batch from deciding your voice doesn’t count? In the Silver State, our bets on democracy deserve better odds, don’t they?

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