No updates yet on Washoe County's website, but the registrar is about to hold a virtual press briefing. I'll be tweeting out highlights, so follow along here!
Washoe County Registrar Deanna Spikula said the county received around 9,000 ballots that came in on Election Day through drop off locations and Election Day polling locations. She says the county is verifying, processing and tallying those ballots.
Spikula says Washoe County will be posting results daily by 10 a.m. moving forward.
Spikula says the county has more than 5,000 provisional ballots that were issued for same-day registration and other. Those will be reconciled after the last mail-in ballot is cast. (They need to make sure people haven't voted another way before processing the provisional.)
Those provisionals will be counted after Nov. 10. Similar to Clark County, Washoe will be done counting on Nov. 13. Final canvass of the votes will be on Nov. 16.
Spikula says the county is still working through the ballots that were turned in on Election Day. Those have to go through the signature verification and then, potentially, a signature curing process.
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In summary, this is the universe of ballots that could still be counted in Clark:
- 63,262 mail (b/w Election Day drop off, USPS from ED/Wed, + ballots pending prior to ED)
- 241 NEW mail added to that total today
- 60,000 provisional
- 44,000 ID-required
- 2,100 need sig cure
There's been a lot of confusion at this press conference: Joe Gloria, Clark County registrar, mentioned two separate universes of mail ballots yesterday: 51k that were being processed yesterday and that other 63k that were not yet being processed.
That 51k number was wrong, because it referred to PAGES, not individual ballots. In reality, there were about 30K ballots. That was what was reported out of Clark County this morning.
The daily press conference at the Clark County Elections Department is kicking off now. I'll be live tweeting the highlights here, so follow along!
Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria says when he said that there were 51,000 ballots being processed yesterday to be reported today, that was incorrect. There were actually only a little over 30,000 (the number reported this morning.)
They inadvertently reported the number of page numbers that needed to be counted, not the number of individual ballots. However, the 63,000 number that he gave yesterday (of mail ballots left to be counted) is correct.
Hi (hello) again! Time for me to (again) briefly take of my election hat and put on my COVID hat to provide you the daily COVID-19 numbers in Nevada... as I have been doing every day (including holidays and weekends!) since June...!
Nevada COVID-19 updates for 11/5:
🧪 Test positivity remains high. Cumulative test positivity is 12.70%; avg daily test positivity is 22.31%.
🏥 COVID-19 hospitalizations are at 740, +46 from the previous day and our first time above 700 since late August.
😷 Cases continue to climb statewide. We're sitting at a seven-day average of about 958 new cases reported each day as of yesterday. At the peak over the summer, our highest seven-day average was 1,176.
Some back of napkin math: There are ~114k mail and ~60k provisional in Clark. Clark mail today went 2-1 for Biden; data shows same-day registrants were about 50-50 D/R so...
Biden: 76k mail + 30k prov = 106k
Trump: 38k mail + 30k prov = 68k
We know there are 190k votes left statewide, so ~16k non-Clark votes.
If Biden is able to get the same share from Clark mail as he did today... you can see how this math is really difficult for Team Trump, even if they won 100% of the non-Clark votes.
I’m oversimplifying, but you can play around with these numbers and see why Nevada still should be Biden’s to lose despite the narrow, 11k vote, less than a percentage point margin he has right now.
Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria walking through the numbers of ballots. A total of 63,262 ballots need to be counted:
- 34,743 from Election Day drop off
- 4,208 from USPS on Election Day/yesterday
- 24,311 additional mail ballots that were pending as of Election Day
Gloria says that his staff has begun counting 51,000 of those ballots and the results of those ballots will be reported from TOMORROW.
Gloria says he is hoping that the bulk of Clark County's ballots will be read by Saturday or Sunday this weekend.
NEW: Washoe County Registrar Deanna Spikula says Washoe County will NOT be posting any new results today. The next result update won't happen until tomorrow morning.
This after we were previously told this morning that we WOULD receive results by 10 a.m. this morning. She says the county has been focused on processing the mail-in ballots they received yesterday, verifying signatures, etc.
Spikula said there was nothing new to report at 10 a.m. this morning and described the fact that the county had said there would be a 10 a.m. update as a "communication error." She said no new results had come in overnight.