Hi!
Native Nevadan here.

Born and raised in Las Vegas/Clark County
(Yep. We exist!)

Just hoping to provide some context/history here through my own lens

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First I want to say I haven’t lived in Nevada in 10+ years.

I recognize laws have changed.

And this may not be the way things are right now, here in 2020.

But this is what I experienced growing up

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Early voting.

And a lot of it.

Each election year I would head to the grocery store hand in hand with mom and dad.

Yep. The grocery store.

And that’s where they would vote.

Weeks before the assigned Election Day

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We’d walk up to the little table

say hello to the poll worker

grab a ballot

and walk into a little curtained off booth

Then we’d go get groceries

Honestly I don’t remember a lot beyond that.

Because that’s what was normal

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I honestly didn’t know there was a different way of doing it

Until I moved away.

Sort of like— I didn’t know gas stations closed. Until I left Nevada.

In my head, why would they?
Or why would some states make it more difficult to vote early than just going to the store?

5/

That’s just what was normal.

For me at least.

Spending close to 4 hours in line in Nebraska last weekend because there’s a single physical location in which to vote early in the entire city was weird.

For me.

6/

So, my point is that Nevada voters are long conditioned to vote early and en masse.

It makes a lot of sense to me that there are A LOT of early voting ballots still left to count.

/end

Oh, and it’s pronounced Nuh-Vaa-duh

It’s not that hard.

Now /end