Election 2024: More than 55,000 more ballots could be released tonight | Clark County | News

As Clark County election officials continue to process ballots from Tuesday's election, one trend is becoming increasingly clear: Voter turnout in Nevada's 2024 election appears to be significantly lower than in previous elections.

According to the State Department, 67.8 percent of all registered voters cast their ballots as of Wednesday morning. In the 2020 parliamentary election, voter turnout was 77.26 percent.

Clark County is expected to release more results after 10 p.m. tonight, which could include about 55,000 ballots, although an unknown number of ballots will still arrive from the mail, according to Lorena Portillo, Clark County voter registrar.

Portillo said during a news conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday that everything was running smoothly and that teams worked overnight to process ballots and that there were no major problems on Election Day.

“Our team was well prepared, our systems were well tested and everyone was on board with what we were doing,” she said.

The county updated its results at 1:32 a.m. Wednesday morning with nearly 930,000 votes counted and re-released updates at 1 p.m. for about 9,200 ballots, including mail-in ballots the county received from the post office Tuesday morning and all of those so far were successfully cured.

Approximately 54,000 mail-in ballots were received in mailboxes at vote centers throughout the county; These are the ones that will be published in the 10 p.m. update on Wednesday evening, plus those from the Tuesday morning postal vote and postal ballots with signature issues have been fixed. However, Portillo noted that some of those 55,000 ballots may not pass verification and will not be tabulated Wednesday evening.

Portillo said she doesn't know how many mail-in ballots were received at the post office Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, but she expects to know that number later Wednesday.

She stressed the importance of voters curing their signatures when asked to do so by the election authority. Voters have until 5 p.m. Nov. 12 to correct their ballots, and correcting a ballot is a simple and quick process, Portillo said.

You can call 702-455-6552 or go to cure.nv.gov. As of 11 a.m., there were about 12,000 signatures in Clark County that needed to be cured. Statewide, that number is 26,868 ballots. Portillo said some ballots had mismatched signatures or some people forgot to sign the entire return envelope.

“It won’t take long,” she said. “I urge voters to take advantage of this quick and easy way to cure their signature. “It’s not hard, and here’s how to make sure your ballot counts.”

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