2026Election Stories

Jamie Rodriguez, Washoe County's interim registrar of voters, is among those stepping into an election oversight role at a time marked by mass misinformation and distrust.

The festivities surrounding Nevada's 158th birthday, which technically falls on Monday, coincided with the early vote period.

Loosely organized plans to challenge registrations en masse failed in Washoe County, a swing county that Democratic President Joe Biden won by 4.5 points in 2020.

Gov. Steve Sisolak is fending off attacks from his Republican rival over his administration's fast-tracking the license for a COVID-testing company with ties to a political donor.

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske told Nye County's top election administrator to cease hand counting ballots immediately on Thursday evening.

The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has long been among the most singularly powerful political forces in Nevada, often operating en masse through campaign groundwork and door-knocking campaigns to back Democrats.

Elizabeth Mercedes Krause, a Democrat, is running against longtime Republican incumbent Rep. Mark Amodei in Nevada's ruby-red 2nd Congressional District.

A new poll released Tuesday by Univision Noticias shows Nevada's U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races in a "statistical tie," with Latino voters likely to ultimately play a major role in determining the winner. 

First-term Assemblyman Andy Matthews (R-Las Vegas) has centered his campaign for state controller on cutting government spending and increasing transparency around state budgets.

Almost all of that money has come from out-of-state donors, led by a $5 million contribution from Katherine Gehl, a Chicago-based businesswoman who founded the Institute for Political Innovation and pioneered the concept of Final-Five Voting, the model for Nevada's Question 3.

Bigelow also directly contributed $9.3 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) over the past calendar year, with an affiliated company (Sedona Magnet LLC) contributing another $3 million, for a total of $12.3 million.

In an August 2021 email to an Elko County deputy district attorney, Steninger laid out the group's interest in having "the rural counties … announce plans to shift to paper ballots," which they believed would make the rest of the state "obliged to follow suit."

So while you mull when to vote, below are some resources pulled from our handy elections page that could help as you ponder all the choices on this year's ballot. We have ballot question explainers, race previews and stories detailing candidates' policy positions. 

The ruling is a writ of mandamus — a court order compelling a party to take a certain action — and otherwise does not affect the county's overall plan to hand count ballots this election cycle.

On the seven-member Clark County School Board, all it takes is four votes to get items passed. The November election, however, could change the board's paradigm, since three seats are up for grabs.

Those costs were incurred in large part by the deposition of two expert witnesses for Lombardo, which together cost nearly $70,000.

The visit, billed as an "early vote rally" on Nov. 1, also comes days before the close of Nevada's early voting window on Nov. 4

A little more than three weeks before Election Day, candidates running for statewide and legislative offices are spending big in an attempt to gain the upper hand.

Make the Road Action Nevada, a local nonprofit focused on Latino and Hispanic voter engagement, launched a seven-figure voter mobilization campaign Thursday to reject "MAGA Republicans" running for office in Nevada.

This year, the outside groups have made their mark, collectively spending more than $100 million across the three competitive House races and high-profile Senate race, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonprofit research group dedicated to tracking money in U.S. politics.