LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a proposal Thursday geared toward increasing poll dropboxes.
The proposal, Meeting Invoice 306, would have required Clark County to ascertain 10 drop packing containers be obtainable between the tip of early voting and the day earlier than Election Day. The invoice included smaller numbers for different counties. The proposal handed the Nevada Senate alongside celebration strains and within the Nevada Meeting with one Republican becoming a member of Democrats.
“Nevada is already among the easiest states in the nation to cast a vote,” Lombardo wrote in his veto message Thursday. “AB 306 appears to be well-intentioned but falls short of its stated goals while failing to guarantee appropriate oversight of the proposed ballot boxes or the ballots cast. I believe additional election reforms should be considered as part of a larger effort to improve election security, integrity and allow Nevada to declare winners more quickly.”
“I am disappointed that Governor Lombardo vetoed AB306,” Meeting Speaker Steve Yeager stated in an announcement. “AB306 was a bipartisan measure aimed at ensuring that voters, especially working families, seniors, and those with disabilities, have secure and accessible ways to return their mail ballots between the end of early voting and election day, allowing election workers to count votes quicker. However, I remain committed to protecting Nevadans’ right to vote in a safe and secure manner and I look forward to working with Governor Lombardo over the waning days of session to find a mutually acceptable compromise.”
Talking with the 8 Information Now Investigators after the 2024 normal election, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, stated Clark County’s tabulation infrastructure and the frenzy of ballots obtained on Election Day have been guilty for delays.
Nevada state legislation requires all mail-in ballots to be mailed and postmarked by Election Day. There may be then a four-day interval after Election Day when county clerks can settle for the postmarked ballots and course of them. If the poll doesn’t have a postmark, county clerks can course of ballots as much as three days after Election Day.
Measures the Nevada Legislature put in place in 2021, alongside the mail-in voting legislation, scrubbed voter rolls of non-eligible and deceased voters. Simply over half of Nevada’s ballots forged within the 2022 normal election have been mail ballots, in accordance with an intensive research launched by the federal authorities. The state and counties routinely clear their rolls of inactive voters.
In latest periods, Republicans and Lombardo have pushed for election-related modifications with out success within the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
Shut margins typically determine Nevada elections: In 2022, Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo received by about 15,000 votes; Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto received by about 8,000 votes. In 2020, former President Joe Biden received by about 33,000 votes.
Nevada voters can choose in or out of receiving a mail-in poll at nvsos.gov.
