Poll workers Pat Schmid and Luke Ramm tend the ballot box in Genoa, Nevada's oldest precinct on Thursday afternoon. Turnout in the 2024 General Election hit 63.8 percent for Douglas County.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
As of the end of early in-person voting, Douglas and Humboldt counties were tied for the highest voter turnout in the Silver State with 63.8 percent, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office reporting on Saturday morning.
Douglas voters have cast 26,916 ballots so far in the election, the highest total for the counties that are not Clark or Washoe.
Turnout for early voting on the last day of early in-person voting in 2020 was
67 percent, with 16,035 voters using a mailed ballot and 9,307 voting in person, as reported in The R-C on Oct. 31, 2022.
Total turnout in 2020 was 87.78 percent, with 34,163 out of 38,917 active voters casting a ballot.
A total of 26,916 ballots have been cast so far this year, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office, with 8,586 people voting in person. That leaves 15,253 registered active voters who have yet to cast a ballot in the county.
After wrapping up early in-person voting 6 p.m. Friday, the Douglas County Clerk-Treasurer’s Office will begin preparations for Tuesday’s Election Day next week.
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center, Kahle Community Center, the TRE Community Center, the Dresslerville Community Center and the Indian Hills General Improvement District office. Any voter may cast a ballot in person at any polling place. Dropping off ballots may be done at any polling place up until 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Ballots voters received in the mail may be dropped off 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday or 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Douglas County Courthouse.
As of Friday morning, there were around 190 ballots that required a cure. Visit govotedouglas.com and click on the “Mail Ballot Signature Cure List” for the names of voters whose ballots had issues.
Voters have until Nov. 12 to cure their ballots, one more day due to Veteran’s Day, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said on Friday.
“Per Nevada law, counties could start processing and tabulating election results 15 days before Election Day,” he said describing the timeline. “On Election Day, they can begin counting early in-person votes. During the June Primary, the counties used this process for the first time, and we had the first large chunk of results posted on our website within 10 minutes of confirming all polls in Nevada were closed and the last voter had voted.”
He acknowledged that the general election will have a much higher turnout than the primary, but his goal was to begin releasing results as quickly as possible.
Wednesday’s R-C goes to press before the polls open on Tuesday.
Preliminary results will be reported at www.recordcourier.com as they arrive.
