By james art 
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Election Day 2024 is Tuesday — Nevada voters have 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to cast their ballots.
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Nevadans are voting in their elections for president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and several local races, including 10 Nevada Senate seats, all 42 Nevada Assembly seats and a new mayor of Las Vegas. The ballot also contains seven questions.
Voting in person on election day
Clark County operates 135 Election Day voting centers that are also mail-in ballot locations. Locations include Allegiant Stadium, Galleria at Sunset, Henderson City Hall, Las Vegas City Hall, Meadows Mall, North Las Vegas City Hall and the UNLV Lied Library.
All polling stations in Nevada close at 7:00 p.m. or until the last person in line votes. Anyone who lines up by 7 p.m. will be able to vote.
RELATED: Clark County Polling Places
Nevada offers same-day voter registration. New voters can register and vote at any polling place with a valid Nevada driver’s license or Nevada ID. Any other form of identification, including military ID or passport, cannot be used for same-day check-in to prove your identity. No ID card is required to vote if the voter is already registered.
Voting by mail
Mailed ballots can be left at any polling place or at any post office or post office box. There is one late drop-off location where ballots can be dropped off until 8:59 p.m. at the post office at 1001 E. Sunset Road in Las Vegas.
Mailed ballots must be postmarked by Election Day to be counted. Signatures on postal ballots must match those on file. The Clark County Elections Department will notify voters if there is a problem with their signature, but the voter must have a phone number or email to be notified. Voters have until 5 p.m. on the sixth day after Election Day to provide signature verification, Nevada law states — with the Veterans Day holiday, that date this year is Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Link: Clark County Registered Voter Services
Voters can track their mail-in ballots on BallotTrax or the Clark County Elections Department website.
Clark County voters can see if the county has counted their mail-in ballot in the Registered Voter Services section of the Elections Department’s website. The county can also be reached at 702-455-VOTE (8683). Nye County voters can call 775-482-8134.
What are the big races?
Nevadans are voting in their elections for president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and several local races, including 10 Nevada Senate seats, all 42 Nevada Assembly seats and a new mayor of Las Vegas. The ballot also contains seven questions.
Nevada’s six electoral votes are at stake in the presidential race. One of Nevada’s two US Senate seats and all four Nevada House seats are up for grabs.
Clark County voters will also vote for seats on the Clark County Board of Trustees.
Question 1 proposes amendments to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education. If passed, it will become law.
Question 2 reviews the text in the Nevada constitution regarding people receiving government assistance. If passed, it will become law.
Question 3 proposes amending the Nevada constitution to allow for open primaries and ranked-choice voting. If passed, it will become law.
Question 4 removes language from the Nevada Constitution regarding slavery and involuntary servitude. If passed, it will become law.
Question 5 exempts diapers from certain taxes. If passed, it will become law.
Question 6 enshrines in the state constitution Nevada’s existing abortion access law, which allows a woman to have an abortion until the fetus is viable or after if the mother’s life is at risk. If passed, it would appear on the ballot again in November 2026.
Question 7 will require the voter to show ID to vote. If passed, it would appear on the ballot again in November 2026.
When should we expect results?
Clark County will release early voting and vote-by-mail totals in its first election night totals, with Election Day results coming out later that night. The county and state won’t release aggregate data until the last polling place closes. Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said during the June primary that there was a 10-minute wait from the closing of the last polling place until the first results were posted online at 8:04 p.m.
On election night, the county will first release early voting totals and mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballot totals will be for ballots received by Monday. The county expects to release a second batch of data later in the evening with in-person election day results.
In the days after that, the county will release results in the afternoon and evening as mail-in ballots are tallied and as voters who need to verify their identities do so.
Nevada state law requires that all vote-by-mail ballots be mailed and postmarked by Election Day. Then there is a four-day period after Election Day when county clerks can accept postmarked ballots and process them. If the ballot is not postmarked, county clerks can process the ballots up to three days after Election Day.
A law passed after the 2020 election allows Nevada county clerks and registrars to process mail-in ballots in the two weeks before the election. This change and the new equipment will likely make the tabulation process faster than it was in 2020.
Because of the thin margins, the Associated Press, which calls the races based on vote totals and their analysis, did not announce the 2020 presidential race or the 2022 U.S. Senate race until the Saturday after Election Day. The AP called the race for Lombardo the Friday after that election.
State law prohibits “campaigning” — canvassing for a candidate or wearing political symbols — anywhere on private property serving as a polling place and within 100 feet of a polling place on public property.
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