Editor’s Note: This is The Nevada Independent’s 2024 Primary Election Day live blog. We’ll be updating this story throughout the day with dispatches from various polling sites, details on turnout and any election administration matters that emerge. You can find full election results on our Primary Results page, and follow the team on Twitter for the latest news and updates.
PHOTOS: Voters cast ballots at Desert Breeze Community Center in Las Vegas
— Jeff Scheid, 2:55 p.m.
How to participate in the 2024 Nevada primary election
— Rocio Hernandez, 10:40 a.m.
Polls now open, but many ballots already cast
Primary Election Day voting centers opened at 7 a.m. across the state, allowing those who did not participate during early voting to cast their ballots.
As of Monday morning, about 238,400 Nevadans had cast a ballot in the primary via mail or in-person voting, bringing the total voter turnout to 11.9 percent.
So far, more than 72 percent of all voters who have cast a ballot have done so by mail, including nearly 80 percent of Democrats and about 61 percent of Republicans.
Though turnout has been low so far, 44.5 percent of voters who cast a ballot were Democrats, and 41.3 percent were Republicans. Other party registrations accounted for 14.3 percent of the total turnout.
To speed up the process of reporting results, the secretary of state issued new guidance allowing counties to start tabulating ballots as early as 8 a.m. today. During previous elections, counties could only begin counting ballots after the polls closed.
Though tabulation begins this morning, unofficial results will not begin posting until all polls are closed and the last voter in line anywhere in the state has cast their ballot.
To vote on Election Day, voters must be in line by 7 tonight. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by June 11.
— Tabitha Mueller, 7 a.m.
