Thousands of Clark County ballots were rejected because of mismatches or missing signatures

Since early voting began last Saturday, Clark County has rejected more than 3,000 mailed ballots because of mismatches or missing signatures, prompting the election board to notify thousands of affected voters to cast their ballots by verifying their identity on or before can heal on November 12th. As of Tuesday evening, Clark County has processed 142,000 ballots and rejected 2,906 mail-in ballots with mismatched signatures and 300 mail-in ballots without a signature.

Channel 8 News reports:

The elections department notifies voters if there is a problem with their signature. However, a voter must have provided a telephone number or email address in order to be notified. Voters have until 5 p.m. on the sixth day after Election Day to provide a signature confirmation, according to Nevada law – since Veterans Day is a holiday, that date this year is Tuesday, November 12th.

A Clark County Election Department audit found that nearly 5,000 voters cast their mail-in ballots late in the 2022 midterm elections, resulting in their votes not being counted, the 8 News Now Investigators reported in 2023

As of Tuesday evening, the county had processed more than 142,000 mail-in ballots. By comparison, in 2022 — when Nevadans elected Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and a presidential race was not on the ballot — nearly 341,000 people in Clark County voted by mail by Election Day.

Just over half of ballots cast in Nevada's 2022 General Assembly were mail-in ballots, according to a federal government study. According to an audit, about 80,000 Clark County ballots were processed on Election Day or in the four days afterward.

In a special legislative session during the pandemic, the Democratic majority unilaterally upended and changed Nevada's election laws, implementing automatic mail-in ballots for every registered voter and extending ballot-counting deadlines. Every active voter will now receive a mail-in ballot unless they opt out. An active voter does not refer to how often someone votes, but to whether mail is accepted or cannot be delivered. If the mail cannot be delivered after multiple attempts, the voter is considered inactive, will no longer receive an unsolicited mail-in ballot, and must provide identification to vote in person.

Nevada must comply with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, which requires states to follow appropriate roll-keeping procedures and ensure that voters who have changed jurisdictions are identified, placed in inactive status, and ultimately deregistered Office to be removed. Pursuant to NVRA and NRS 293.530 requirements and procedures, 102,267 voters in Clark County were classified as inactive last August.

To check the status of your ballot in Clark County, Click here. Clark County voters can also check whether their mail-in ballots have been counted by visiting the Registered Voter Services section of the Board of Elections website or by calling (702) 455-VOTE (8683).