Nevada May be Decided by Signature Curing

As tight margins separate candidates in Nevada’s top races, advocacy groups are focusing on thousands of challenged ballots still requiring signature cures that could be the difference in each race.

Mail ballots submitted to county election officials that have signatures that do not match those on file require “cures,” a process by which county election workers verify the identity of the voter in question before having their ballot counted.

For this election cycle, “challenged ballots must be cured by Monday, Nov. 14 — two days after the deadline to finish counting mail ballots,” The Nevada Independent reports.

Republican Adam Laxalt is currently leading Democrat Catherine Cortez 49% to 48% in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.

As of right now, only 90% of the vote is in and counties all across the state are still counting ballots.

Clark County – the most populous county in the state that includes the Las Vegas area – still has 50,000 outstanding ballots to count.

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Cont. from The Nevada Independent:

As of Thursday morning, roughly 39 percent of the more than 11,755 ballots requiring cures thus far in Clark County had been cured, leaving 7,155 unresolved. The partisan breakdown of those cures was not made available through data posted online.

Another 5,555 provisional ballots — or ballots provided to voters who registered to vote on Election Day or otherwise had an issue proving their identification — will not be counted until the state validates those ballots next Wednesday.

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In Washoe County, 1,421 ballots still required a signature cure as of Thursday morning, of which the plurality, 39 percent, were nonpartisan, another 32 percent were Democrats and 30 percent Republicans.

County and state election officials across Nevada have been attempting to contact voters with signature issues since before Election Day through waves of texts, phone calls, emails and mailed postcards.

But partisan groups — especially those aligned with Democrats — are also mobilizing resources to contact voters who may not know their vote has not yet been counted.

That includes Nevada Democratic Victory, a political action committee and offshoot of the vaunted “Reid Machine” created following an internal split in the state’s Democratic party early last year. The group has arranged mobilization efforts for volunteers to reach out to voters with rejected ballots, including sending staff door to door.

Nevada Democratic Victory has also set up an online source for rural voters to fill out signature cure affidavits — a resource that Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s campaign texted to certain voters. Douglas County urged residents to “not reply and disregard” such messages in a Wednesday Twitter post.

Republicans have also sought to boost information for their voters on ballot curing. That includes at least one such effort from the Republican National Committee (RNC), which RNC spokesperson Hallie Balch, in a statement, said had “a duty to inform voters that their ballot needs curing in order to be counted.”