Democrats [Attorney General Aaron] Ford and [Secretary of State Cisco] Aguilar would tell you they’re not just talking a good game, but are bringing a strategy into the struggle to protect and maintain fair elections.

The schedules provide insight into Nevada's constitutional officers’ meetings and priorities during the 2023 legislative session.

Whether history remembers the Nevada attorney general’s investigation of the state GOP’s attempted use of a slate of false electors in 2020 as a righteous cause or a political footnote, you must admit that it’s overdue.

The investigation marks the first Nevada-based probe into the actions of the unauthorized slate of electors who pledged votes to Trump despite his loss.

Lorena Portillo, 47, has worked in the county elections department for 25 years, starting out in a part-time position to make ends meet as a young mom earning her associate degree.

New text exchanges between self-proclaimed Nevada electors Jim DeGraffenreid and Shawn Meehan released by the January 6 Committee show their deteriorating belief in the Trump campaign to successfully challenge the results of the 2020 election, frustration with elected Republicans in Nevada, and fears over the optics of the insurrection.

“It's on our radar,” Ford told The Nevada Independent Tuesday. “I know it's unsatisfactory, relative to what people want to hear, but again … I can't be persuaded to speak on something that could potentially jeopardize anything that we are doing.”

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. 

In Clark County, the number of uncounted mail ballots, which include those dropped off in ballot boxes on Election Day, is likely in the tens of thousands, adding to the roughly 27,000 ballots Registrar Joe Gloria said the county was processing Wednesday.

Throughout her campaign, Becker, a Republican, has railed against Democrats for high inflation, raised the alarm about excessive government spending and often tied Lee to unpopular national Democrats.

The re-do in Nevada’s two most populous counties netted Joey Gilbert fewer than a handful of additional votes in a race that unofficial totals show he lost by about 26,000.

A few thousand Nevadans had their primary election ballots flagged for missing or mismatched signatures that needed fixing; several did not respond and their ballots were ultimately disqualified.

Elected officials across Nevada met to canvass the votes from the June election on Friday, giving their seal of approval to the results even as dozens of public commenters gathered to try to block certification.

Under Nevada law, election officials are not allowed to release any vote totals until after all poll locations statewide have closed at 7 p.m.

A total of 40,159 ballots have been turned in from Clark and Washoe counties through June 1, since early voting began on May 28. 

The rise in violent threats has sparked a national exodus of election workers. Dozens of local election officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have left their positions in the past 14 months. In Nevada, similar changes are happening.

But heading into the 2022 midterms, Democrats no longer have a clear advantage in voter registration, as non-major party voters surpassed Democratic and Republican voters for the first time in state history last August.

The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in a months-long case over an exceptionally close Clark County Commission race, with lawyers arguing whether discrepancies in the voting process met the definition of an election being “prevented.”

On the heels of a transition to automatic voter registration (AVR) at the DMV and same-day voter registration, lawmakers are considering bills that proponents say further streamline civic participation and bring more Nevadans into the process.

But beyond that, 42-year-old Matthews never really expected to end up in the political field, much less in the Nevada Legislature. Born in Massachusetts and initially trained as a sports journalist before transitioning to the political realm, he says he “took the scenic route” to the Legislature.