Have you voted yet?

[usregimechange]

83,582 votes have been counted in Clark Co, that is 29.6% of what Kerry got in that Co in 2004. Call everyone you know... GOTV.

[TankLV]

1. Yep - me and my partner did yesterday.

2 more for the good guys...

[Awsi Dooger]

2. In one hour

Heading to a shopping mall before it closes at 9 PM. I'm leaving out three races, non-partisan ones with two Republicans running against each other. I always research that carefully.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. Done

Very convenient at 8:30 PM with no one there. A simple walk up, not one second in line.

No problems with the touch screen this time. When I voted in the primary in August the screen popped a few times, my check mark not sticking on the choice initially. It didn't flip to the other choice but I had to push it a second time. Tonight everything worked perfectly, other than when I skipped the three non-partisan races the machine didn't like it one bit, and kept insisting I hadn't voted in every race I was entitled to.

The paper trail was so damn long with all the races and ballot measures it took up more than one screen. You had to hit the continue button to review the bottom of the paper trail.

Oh yeah, I got superstitious, walking down the left side on the way to and from the voting place :)

[oasis]

4. At Von's Market. Touch screen. paper record. Democracy rocks.

:bounce:

[Awsi Dooger]

5. Slightly over 165,000 voted early in Clark County

That's the final number, since early voting ended Friday. The numbers escalated in the second week and today's 26,000 on the final day was by far the highest, topping 15,000 yesterday, the second high.

The elections supervisor forecast 60% turnout initially but today he scaled that down closer to 53% based on early voting numbers. However, he said he thought voters might be delaying their vote to follow the developments in the gov race.

I don't know the party breakdown. The damn elections website put the files on exe format this year and I'm on a Mac, with no desire to look for a program to open the file. The specifics will probably be in the media over the weekend. If someone on a PC wants to look at it, here's the link. A downloadable exe file is on the bottom right, under "Party and District Turnout."

http://www.accessclarkcounty.com/election/2006/EV_PublicRequest.asp

The host of Nevada Newsmakers said on tonight's show that turnout had been unexpectedly high for Republicans. I don't know if that's true but it's the trend in Nevada, that the GOP shows up in higher percentage in midterm years. This year there is a big push by Democrats to get the Hispanic vote to show up. Boxing champ Julio Cesar Chavez was in town tonight at a Hispanic GOTV rally.

[Awsi Dooger]

6. Here's an article with the breakdown of early voting

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Nov-04-Sat-2006/news/10630120.html

Predictable numbers, but not what I'd hoped for. About 5% more Democrats in Clark County and 8% higher Republican than Democratic turnout in Washoe. Independents seem to be lagging, compared to their overall percentage. The heavily contested NV-2 race hurts statewide Democrats since higher turnout is expected in that district, which has a +48,000 GOP registration edge. The article estmates 60-70% turnout in NV-2, with 55-60% turnout in Clark County.

Somehow we need Clark County to show up in big numbers on Tuesday. Many tight races -- gov, NV-2, NV-3, treasurer, secretary of state, controller.