Commissioner Mark Gardner walks down Esmeralda Street during the June 8 Carson Valley Days parade, just three days before Tuesday's election.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Sitting commissioners Danny Tarkanian and Mark Gardner won their primary races. Nate Tolbert won the District 5 race to replace outgoing commissioner Walt Nowosad, according to results released on Friday morning.
Unlike Gardner and Tolbert, Tarkanian still faces a challenge from nonpartisan Brian Dempsey and Democrat Jason Garrett Gibson in the General Election in November.
With only a few hundred ballots still arriving in the mail and candidates’ vote percentages not changing significantly, it’s a pretty good bet the winners won’t change either.
Turnout barely cracked 32 percent among all voters on Friday morning and was 44.21 percent for Republicans. Only 8.26 percent of nonpartisan and minor party voters cast a ballot. Around 3,000 voters used an election machine while more than 11,000 used their mailed ballots, to bring the total vote to 14,656 as of 8:30 a.m. Friday.
First results that included mailed ballots received by Monday and Tuesday’s in-person voting were released about an hour after polls closed, according to Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans.
“It’s been a good week,” she said. “The main thing is finishing up what we have and for me to get people to check the cure list. We will continue updating that.”
There have consistently been around 60-75 voters on the list whose ballots require cures, Burgans said.
“Every time we get two off, another two end up on the list,” she said.
She urged voters to check the list at www.govotedouglas.com to learn whether they need to come fix their ballot before the 5 p.m. Monday deadline.
While ballots coming in the mail may arrive as late as Saturday, as long as they are postmarked Election Day, the primary election is over.
Burgans said there have been a couple of instances where people tried to drop off ballots after 7 p.m. Tuesday and were told it’s too late.
She said the clerk’s office has also received around 10 presidential preference primary ballots signed and dated for the primary.
Because there was no clear marking on the outside of the envelope indicating which election it was for, it was a puzzle until a voter turned up to complain about getting two ballots, and one was for the February election.
She said that she’s working with the vendor to include a date on ballots sent out for the general election in November.
“We’ve never had this before,” she said.
Election Results as of Friday morning
U.S. Senate
Democrats
Jacky Rosen 3,248 141,292
Troy Zakari Walker 51 5,766
Mike Schaefer 55 3,846
None of these 57 3,450
Republicans
Sam Brown 6,500 100,610
Tony Grady 1,197
Jeff Gunter 814 24,592
Jim Marchant 411 10,962
Bill Conrad 238 9,279
Stephanie Phillips 138 3,688
Garn Mabey 59 1,781
Ronda Kennedy 53 1,726
Barry Lindemann 32 829
Eddy Hamilton 16 456
Vincent Rego 16 300
Gary Marinch 13 224
None of these 494 6,927
U.S. Congress
Republican
Mark Amodei 5,756 42,335
Fred Simon 3,954 23,501
Commission District 1
Danny Tarkanian 5,201
James McKalip 4,499
Commission District 3
Mark Gardner 6,387
Michael Tanner 2,420
Dean Paris 521
Commission District 5
Nathan Tolbert 6,056
Janet Freixas 2,978
Regent District 9
Carol Del Carlo 6,820 23,892
Gary Johnson 2,426 9,491
Bret Delaire 2,054 7,901
State Education Board
Angela Orr 5,483 53,595
Paul Davis 2,491 22,606
Matthew Buehler 2,090 21,977
Dorzell King 1,089 10,472
School Board Trustee
District 1
Yvonne Wagstaff 10,308
District 4
Markus Zinke 10,285
