"Here is what any serious person being honest with you about elections, and the laws surrounding those elections, will tell you: In EVERY election, a certain number (generally very small) of votes will be cast by voters who, for certain reasons, are not actually eligible..."
"And this brings me to the assertions of our former attorney general and those assisting him in besmirching Nevada’s processes in this election..one has to wonder just what was he doing relative to such votes for the four years in which he was the chief law enforcement officer.."
"Every voter and every candidate...deserves a fair election which counts only lawful votes. And in those elections where there is actual evidence of improper votes that actually matter, we have a legal system to find and remove those votes. The system actually works."
@TheNVIndy Remember I told you on the early voting blog that Biden needed to win Clark by 80K and Trump needed to offset that in rurals.
Currently:
Clark - Biden+86K
Rurals - Trump+65K
Washoe - Biden+11K
Rural turnout/margins did not get there for Trump.
Clark firewall held for Dems.
@TheNVIndy So what we have in NV is what I expected to happen: Dems had built up 90K margin Clark in early/mail. Biden is going to win Clark by close to that number or more. Washoe is going slightly to Biden as I thought and Trump crushing it in rurals (bigger than '16 but not big enough).
NEWS: New NV numbers from Clark -- small batch, he's now up by 22.5K. Gain of about 2K.
It's still...over.
Only a few thousand ballots added, but Biden continues to win by large margin every Clark update. Third straight update that he has won by 2 to 1 or close to it:
Biden: +5,454
Trump: 2,934
Overall:
Biden: 632,558
Trump: 609,901
Lead is 22,657, or 1.6 percent
Let me show you how impossible this is for Trump here:
First, three reports of Clark ballots so far -- pattern of large proportional Biden gains. He has now almost tripled his election night lead of 7,500.
Apropos of nothing, may I remind everyone that in the history of this country, there has never been a Nevadan in a presidential Cabinet.
This is a fact. Really.
(Please don't pollute my feed with Secretary of Slow-Ballot-Counting jokes.)
I think @DTaylorUH
would make a helluva labor secretary and the Culinary did help Biden win Nevada. One of labor movement's most accomplished figures.
It would somehow be fitting if the end of @SenatorReid's career was as energy secretary. The man who stopped the DOE from putting nuclear waste at Yucca as head of DOE?
All right, everyone, there has been some confusion over how many ballots are left in NV -- some miscommunication, so let me clarify with latest via election officials.
In Clark:
The 51K Clark ballots that will be reported tomorrow are mail already through verification process.
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There are an additional 63,000 mail ballots in Clark that have been returned but have not gone though the process. A mail percentage will end up being rejected if pattern holds.
Then there are about 60,000 so-called provisionals in Clark.
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Those are same-day registrants that need to be verified after mail counted. And then some ballots that will arrive in the next few days mailed Monday or Tuesday.
So may be 175K in Clark, give or take, depending n rejections and new mail.
A few thousand in rest of state.
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NEWS: First batch of new votes from NV, from Clark, shows Biden lead up to 12K.
Only about 14K votes or so updated from Clark and Biden lead goes up by almost 5K. See the advantage Dems have with mail. If that is ratio for ballots in Clark, very bad news for Trump.
Washoe If no more Clark numbers post today, though, this lead will shrink when rurals post. But there tens of thousands of mail ballots to come from Clark....eventually.