A Democratic redistricting plan drew objections from a prominent lawmaker, but the party held all three Southern Nevada seats. Will they be able to keep winning in the future?
Colton Lochhead
Review-Journal Capital Bureau
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Nearly 30 municipalities in the Southwest have signed on to an agreement to reduce water use along the Colorado River, following Las Vegas, which has led the way on conservation efforts for years.
Clark County is down to counting the last remaining ballots. Some had unreadable or mismatched signatures.
Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said most of the outstanding ballots from the 2022 election will be counted today, although some provisional ballots remain to be verified and counted.
Republican Joe Lombardo will become Nevada’s next governor, making the leap from county sheriff to the state’s top executive office after unseating first-term Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak by a razor-thin margin.
Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt are essentially tied in the closely watched U.S. Senate race that could determine party control of the Senate.
Democratic Reps. Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford declared victory Thursday in their bids for re-election, even as mail ballots continued to be counted around the state.
Clark County officials still need to count nearly 15,000 mail-in ballots that were received Monday and Tuesday, county Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said Wednesday.
Democrats appear poised to keep control of both houses of the Nevada Legislature, based on early votes on Tuesday.
Gov. Steve Sisolak was trailing Joe Lombardo by just more than 4 percentage points in the race for Nevada governor, according to results released by the election officials late Wednesday.
The Nevada secretary of state’s office has again rejected a proposal by Nye County to hand-count ballots before Election Day on Tuesday, saying the plan still has significant risks.
The vice president’s endorsement gave Spearman a boost in her effort to become the city’s first Black mayor.
Clark County will not be forced to hire more Republican poll workers for its ballot signature verification board, a judge ruled Thursday.
With one week until Election day, the latest polling shows Nevada’s U.S. Senate race between Catherine Cortez Masto and Adam Laxalt is incredibly close.
Democrats have a statewide lead of about 9,200 votes in mail-in ballots and in-person early voting, according to secretary of state figures.
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