Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | 2 a.m.
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Voters visiting the polls contiguous successful Clark County volition announcement a caller look and feel.
Once you’ve made your selections utilizing a touchscreen ballot-marking instrumentality wrong your voting booth, a printer volition output a insubstantial grounds of your picks.
You’ll past transportation that printed ballot implicit to a tabulator and provender it in. That’s it — your ballot volition beryllium officially recorded.
The caller strategy replaces the erstwhile method, by which selections were displayed down a solid surface connected a insubstantial rotation that voters weren’t permitted to handle.
The strategy debuted successful smaller Nevada counties during the 2024 wide predetermination and has present expanded statewide for the 2026 superior elections, according to Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar.
“Voters had highly affirmative experiences,” Aguilar said of the caller process. “Getting to clasp the ballot successful their manus and enactment it successful the tabulator gives the elector an other level of assurance successful the electoral process.”
That propulsion to physique elector assurance comes arsenic authorities officials besides face concerns astir who mightiness beryllium contiguous extracurricular polling places — and however that could impact turnout today.
Aguilar is moving to bolster spot successful Nevada’s elections portion pushing backmost against what helium describes arsenic a coordinated effort by President Donald Trump and his medication to undermine assurance successful elections nationwide.
Trump has sent mixed signals connected whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would beryllium contiguous astatine polling locations today, Aguilar said.
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful February that she had not heard the president sermon plans to enactment ICE extracurricular polling locations — but declined to regularisation retired the anticipation entirely, saying she could not “guarantee that an ICE cause won’t beryllium astir a polling determination successful November.”
Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s nominee to pb the Department of Homeland Security, said during his Senate confirmation proceeding successful March that ICE agents could beryllium sent to polling places successful the lawsuit of a “specific threat.”
Heather Honey, the DHS lawman adjunct caput for predetermination integrity, aboriginal said ICE would not beryllium stationed astatine polling places, calling immoderate proposition to the contrary “simply disinformation.”
Aguilar said the ambiguity is itself the point.
“They’re attempting to make fearfulness and disorder among a assemblage of eligible voters,” helium said. “The president (and) galore others person made continued claims that noncitizens are voting, and that’s conscionable not true. It’s amerciable for noncitizens to ballot successful Nevada.”
Aguilar said Nevada has aggregate steps successful spot to verify elector eligibility. And arsenic the state’s archetypal Latino caput of state, Aguilar said the rhetoric has been personal.
“It’s been upsetting to spot the continued efforts to intimidate and vilify us,” helium said. “Latinos marque up 30% of Nevada’s voters, and we request them to amusement up and ballot and clasp our elected leaders accountable.”
Beyond concerns astir who shows up astatine the polls, Aguilar said his bureau besides was preparing for imaginable changes to however ballots are counted — peculiarly for the bulk of Nevadans who ballot by mail.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to contented a ruling immoderate time present that could necessitate states to halt accepting message ballots aft Election Day — a alteration that could not beryllium challenged oregon blocked by authorities officials.
Under existent Nevada law, message ballots that are postmarked connected oregon earlier Election Day and received by the section by 5 p.m. connected the 4th time aft the predetermination are eligible to beryllium counted.
Aguilar said his bureau was treating the imaginable ruling arsenic a near-certainty arsenic it prepares contingency plans, including nonstop outreach to voters via substance connection to explicate immoderate changes.
“We can’t situation a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court oregon record a suit against it,” helium said. “We person to judge it.”
He emphasized that message ballots are not a partisan contented successful Nevada. In the 2024 statesmanlike election, immoderate of the state’s astir agrarian counties — which thin heavy Republican — had the highest message ballot turnout rates.
Approximately 86% of progressive registered voters person utilized mail-in ballots since 2022, helium said.
“No substance a voter’s geography oregon governmental affiliation, Nevadans request message ballots,” Aguilar said.
Aguilar asked residents to update their accusation connected vote.nv.gov to guarantee officials tin interaction them if there’s a occupation with their message ballot.
Counties person six days aft the predetermination to cure the ballot, a process that includes verifying the signature.
“One of our office’s biggest efforts has been to alteration the fig of message ballots that don’t get cured,” helium said. “If an eligible elector makes an effort to vote, we request to bash everything we tin to get their ballot counted.”
Trump, contempt voting by message successful March during a peculiar predetermination to prime a Florida authorities typical successful the territory that includes his Mar-a-Lago residence successful Palm Beach, connected Friday renewed his battle connected California’s superior predetermination past week, asserting that predetermination officials determination were “cheating” due to the fact that they “aren’t adjacent close” to being done counting ballots.
He made his latest comments, to NBC’s Kristen Welker, during an interrogation that aired Sunday connected “Meet the Press.”
“Do you person grounds to enactment that?” Welker asked Trump astir his cheating claims.
“All I person to bash is look,” helium said.
“But sir, that’s not evidence. That’s however they number the votes successful California,” Welker said. She added that authorities and section officials person acknowledged the dilatory process.
“No, they’re crooked … conscionable similar you’re crooked. Your property is crooked and ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked,” Trump said.
“You’re either crooked oregon you’re stupid,” helium went on. “You cognize that these elections are rigged. Your web knows that they’re rigged.”
Pushed again for evidence, Trump called an extremity to the interview.
The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.
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