Pahrump Valley Times
Early voting turnout this year was heavy, with 8,681 votes cast, according to the Nye County clerk’s office.
Early voting ended in Pahrump Wednesday, where 8,194 people already cast early votes. In Tonopah, where early voting ends today, 487 people have already cast ballots.
Another 1,898 Nye County voters cast absentee or mail-in ballots.
That was 603 more early voters than the 8,078 people who voted early in the 2008 presidential election, which was 46 percent of the 17,533 people who went to the polls that year. Nye County voter turnout in the 2008 general election ended up at 70.25 percent of the 24,957 registered voters; early voting comprised 32.3 percent of all registered voters.
The 8,681 votes cast early so far this year comprises 31.8 percent of the 27,266 registered voters for this election. Voter registration ended Oct. 16.
The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office reported 4,230 registered Republicans voted early in Nye County, along with 2,688 Democrats and 1,763 with other registrations.
Early voting peaked at 1,015 voters who went to the polls on Oct. 23; turnout was slowest on Sundays. Last Sunday, 346 people cast early votes. After heavy turnout of more than 900 people each day from Monday through Thursday of last week, turnout was in the range of 733 to 808 voters Monday through Wednesday of this week.
Statewide, the secretary of state tallied 503,404 early votes cast as of Wednesday night, of which 224,533 were registered Democrats, 184,568 registered Republicans and 94,303 from other parties.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, election day. Voters in Pahrump precincts 9, 10, 16, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 32 will vote at the Bob Ruud Community Center. Voters in Pahrump precincts 11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30 and 31, mostly south of Highway 372, will vote at J.G. Johnson Elementary School, 900 E. Jackrabbit St., about two blocks north of Calvada Boulevard and a few blocks west of Pahrump Valley Boulevard. Manse Elementary School is no longer being used as a voting location.
Other voting places include the Amargosa Complex, the Beatty Community Building, the Tonopah Convention Center and the Donald L. Simpson Community Center. Voters in remote locations like Currant, Duckwater, Gabbs, Ione, Manhattan, Sunnyside and also Crystal, vote by mail.
We participated in the early voting last Sunday. No waiting, walked right in. The room could have been a bit bigger but there was no waiting. As I walked out there was a gentleman sitting on the bench outside the voting room tallying those who entered. He had an “observer” tag on his shirt. I asked who he was observing for and he said it was for himself. I didn’t really believe him but let it go. As we left the building there was a woman asking to participate in an exit poll. She indicated the reason for the poll was to ensure the same number of votes reported by the Clerk were on their poll. It seemed her numbers would be way off unless everyone who voted participated in her poll and not a single person who left with us filled out one of her papers. It will be interesting after the voting is over and the numbers are published if those these two represented will begin squaking that THEIR numbers and the “official” numbers don’t tally.
So, November 7th begins Silly Season, Part Deux. Let the whining begin.
Unfortunately, you are likely correct.
The “Observer” had a Nancy Lord sign on his car, so there is reason to suspect that once she loses, she will use the observer’s tally marks to blame the system for her loss. Time will tell, indeed.
We went to vote on Nevada Day only to be told there was no voting on Nevada Day. Later that day we watched as our governor voted in Reno and people in Vegas voted. Upon reading our pamphlet I noticed that Pahrump had no voting for that day but Tonopah did. Why is Pahrump left out in the cold once again ??
Pahrump left out again? We had 11 days of early voting, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to get the job done, even Saturday and Sunday! While Tonopah had daily voting but Saturday was only 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tonopah is the County Seat which means its office is rgulated by Nevada Revised Statutes much more stringently than the Pahrump office – technically a sattelite office. So, when you are thinking about our local budget and the “overspending” that is happening, would you actually justify the additional overtime, hiring of additional people for those dates, as well as utilities to run the building so we are able to vote on a holiday? Remember, every county employee is mandated to take a furlough day of 8 hours EVERY month in an attempt to save money for our county…..even when overtime is inevitable at wages of time and one-half.
Funny that Reno and Vegas didn’t have that problem. Maybe on a day when many people had off they could have voted, as we wanted to.
Which problem is that? The largest county in Nevada? Some people had to drive more than 60 miles one way to vote early in Pahrump because they didn’t have early voting at all. They didn’t wait until Nevada day.
And if they drove 60 miles on Nevada day that’s o.k. ????????????? guess you obviously work for the county.
Because I actually witnessed a county employee being screamed at because of these types of complaints and felt horrible for her???????
I’ve been thinking… what if Nancy Lord loses and Donna Cox wins? How will CCSC be able to claim voter fraud?
Only time will tell
I would like to apologize to anyone who showed up on Nevada Day or November 1st and 2nd to vote early in Pahrump. The same early voting schedule has been in place for years and is always published for weeks ahead of time. It isn’t a matter of trying to cut anyone’s time short, it is a matter of funding, staffing and resources. Nye County is a huge county to cover during elections. Washoe and Clark Counties have Registrars and whole election departments. Rural counties have County Clerks who provide a lot of services besides voter registration and elections that come up every two years. During an election our workload doubles and during a Presidential Election I would say it triples in the two months prior to the election. We do our best with what we have and my staff is amazing through it all. Not only do they work extremely hard but they remain calm and courteous even when those who come in to complain are not. Once again, I apologize for any inconvenience.
Sandra I understand, but why the largest population center in Nye county gets short shrift when Tonopah gets to vote, equality would be fine.
Obviously, morgman, you DON’T understand. It appears to be all about your WANTS and not the County’s needs.
When Pahrump gets treated equally then there would be no problem. Close Tonopah and open Pahrump, hows that sound, or do you live in Tonopah ?
actually I live more than 60 miles away and I read my ballot to make certain I didn’t drive that on a day that voting was closed.
Actually, Pahrump was open for 8 hours both Saturdays and Sundays to try to accomodate those who work in Las Vegas where Tonopah was only open for 4 hours each Saturday. Many communities in Nye County don’t have early voting at all and have to drive over 60 miles. You can only vote once, so how many days do you need? (I’m sorry but I had to add that even though it was rude and I usually try my best not to be discourteous to anyone or reply to any comments no matter how much I may want to)
no matter how much logic is used, some people will never see the pont. it is worthless to even try.
Tonopah IS the county seat.
Logically speaking, it would have meant more sense to close the Tonopah voting on Nevada day, and concentrate the slim funds on the largest population center in the county, which would be Pahrump.
Your funding excuse makes sense Sandra but not the choice you made as to which voting office to close on Nevada Day. You should always allocate resources to where the majority would utilize them in a case like this.
This will be something to take note of and bring up prior to the next pamphlet is printed.
Well, lets just move the county seat to Pahrump. We could vote on that next election.
Go for it. If I was Sandra, I would vote for that myself, simply because of the abuse that comes from this particular part of the county.
The county seat SHOULD be moved to Pahrump. I never could see the logic in it not being here.
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