Over the past year, Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani has been tucking business cards into a folder. It’s her small way of preparing for the future. The cards contain the names of people she believes possess a strength that would make them valuable to a campaign, if not as potential elected officials.

Nevada voters may have overwhelmingly approved a ballot question that would double the state’s renewable standards if approved again in 2020, but several top lawmakers are pushing for bills that could make that initiative effectively irrelevant. At least two Democratic lawmakers say they plan to push for measures raising Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS, above the 50 percent by 2030 goal laid out in Question 6, which Nevada voters approved by 59 to 41 percent in the 2018 election.

Researchers have already established that Nevada’s prison population is 7 percent higher than it was a decade ago even though prison rates nationwide are dropping, and even though violent crime is down 24 percent and property crime is down 25 percent in Nevada in the past decade.

State Sen. Yvanna Cancela is planning to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to decriminalize abortion in Nevada nearly half a century after the state enacted a law allowing it in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

But Nevada has largely avoided that issue — quick calls on election night are a result of the state’s relatively strict deadlines for mail and absentee ballots and because of the popularity of early voting in the state, Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Wayne Thorley said in an interview with The Nevada Independent. Thorley said being able to call races relatively quickly helped solidify the integrity of election results and cut down on misinformation that festers when ballot counting continues indefinitely.

When the money was tallied, opponents of the ballot question spent more than three times more than the amount reported by proponents. They were also able to bring together a diverse coalition of groups, including rural counties, organized labor, business organizations, pro-renewable groups, teachers’ unions and senior groups to publicly oppose Question 3 and appear in campaign ads laying out their issues with it.

The Trump administration has released a bevy of proposed and final rules over the last few weeks to try to shape the future of health-care policy as Congress has failed to make significant headway over the last two years and as a Democratic House promises to thwart any Republican efforts in the Senate.

On Election Night, all eyes were on Washoe County, where high turnout kept polls open nearly three hours after doors closed in some parts of Reno. With high turnout and long lines, some officials are now calling on the county to dedicate more resources to its Election Day operations.