Thousands of Clark County Ballots Rejected Due to Non-Matching, Missing Signatures

Since early voting began last Saturday, Clark County has rejected over 3,000 mailed ballots due to non-matching or missing signatures, prompting the election department to notify thousands of impacted voters to cure their ballot by verifying their identities on or before November 12. As of Tuesday night, Clark County has processed 142,000 ballots, rejecting 2,906 mail-in ballots with non-matching signatures and 300 mail in ballots missing a signature.

Channel 8 News reports:

 The Election Department will notify voters if there is an issue with their signature, however, a voter must have a phone number or email on file to be notified. Voters have until 5 p.m. on the sixth day after Election Day to provide a signature confirmation, Nevada law states — with the Veterans Day holiday, that date this year is Tuesday, Nov. 12.

An audit of the Clark County Election Department found nearly 5,000 voters submitted their mail-in ballots too late in the 2022 midterm election, leading their votes not to be counted, the 8 News Now Investigators reported in 2023

As of Tuesday night, the county had processed more than 142,000 mail-in ballots. For comparison, in 2022 – when Nevadans elected Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and a presidential race was not on the ballot – nearly 341,000 people voted in Clark County by mail through Election Day.

Just over half of Nevada’s ballots cast in the 2022 general were mail ballots, according to a federal government study. About 80,000 Clark County ballots were processed on Election Day or in the four days after, an audit said.

In a special legislative session during the pandemic, the Democratic majority unilaterally upended and transformed Nevada election laws, ushering in automatic mail ballots to every registered voter and extending ballot tabulation deadlines. Every active voter now receives a mail ballot, unless they opt out. An active voter does not refer to how often someone votes, rather it refers to mail being accepted or undeliverable. If mail is undeliverable after multiple attempts, the voter is designated as inactive, will no longer receive an unsolicited mail ballot, and will have to show an ID to vote in person.

Nevada must comply with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, which requires states to maintain adequate list maintenance procedures and ensure that voters who have moved jurisdictions are identified, moved to inactive status, and ultimately removed. In accordance with the requirements and procedures of the NVRA and NRS 293.530, 102,267 Clark County voters were designated as inactive last August.

To check the status of your ballot in Clark County, click here. Clark County voters can also verify is their mail-in ballot was counted by visiting the “Registered Voter Services” section of the election department’s website or calling (702) 455-VOTE (8683).