Thousands of ballots tossed after ‘cure’ deadline passes in Nevada – Washington Examiner
In the recent 2024 elections in Nevada, election officials invalidated over 9,000 mail-in ballots due to signature discrepancies, which constituted about 0.6% of the total votes cast. This occurred after the deadline for voters to resolve these issues, known as the “cure” period, expired on November 12, a week following Election Day. Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar expressed disappointment over the number of votes not counted due to this failure. While officials managed to address signature problems for over 23,000 ballots—a record for this election cycle—Aguilar intends to propose improvements to the curing process in the state’s legislature next year.
Many of the invalidated ballots came from Clark County, particularly among younger voters, many of whom neglected to sign their ballots. This situation could impact the Republican Party, particularly Sam Brown, the GOP’s candidate for the Senate, who lost the election by a narrow margin of about 23,000 votes to Democrat Jacky Rosen. Despite some issues, Nevada’s overall 2024 election process appeared more effective than that of the 2020 elections.
Thousands of ballots tossed after ‘cure’ deadline passes in Nevada
Nevada election officials scrapped a record number of ballots because of unresolved questions about ineligible signatures during the 2024 elections.
More than 9,000 mail-in ballots with inadequate signatures, or 0.6% of all votes cast, were tossed after Nevada’s deadline to “cure” or fix any problems with ballots passed on Nov. 12, a week after Election Day.
“It’s very disappointing that more than 9,000 Nevadans did not have their votes count this election due to the failure to have their ballots cured,” Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told the Nevada Independent.
Although Nevada election officials resolved signature problems on more than 23,000 mail-in ballots, marking another record broken this cycle, Aguilar plans to ask the state legislature to improve the curing process next year.
Aguilar noted on Nov. 5 that many ballots needing to be cured came from Clark County, where both Republican presidential and Senate candidates made significant inroads this election cycle. He also said many of the problematic ballots came from younger voters who neglected to sign their names on the forms. A postelection analysis from the outlet added that many of the votes in question came from registered nonpartisans.
Given exit poll data showing independent and young voters trended toward the Republican Party in 2024, the news could likely come as another blow to the state’s GOP senate candidate Sam Brown, whose challenge to Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) was decided by a close margin. The Republican senate hopeful conceded a razor-thin loss of roughly 23,000 to Rosen last week.
Nevada’s overall 2024 elections appeared to run fairly smoothly compared to the 2020 cycle. However, questions were raised after more than 1,600 uncounted ballots were discovered in Clark County, the state’s most populous county, nine days after the election. The ballots were subsequently counted and did not change the results of any election.
Aguilar assured voters the mistake would not happen again and pledged that “appropriate accountability measures” would be taken in comments to the outlet.
The 2024 election cycle notably marks the first time Nevada has used its new $30 million top-down Voter Registration and Election Management Solution system. VREMS is a “centralized statewide voter registration database” that connects election processes and data from all of Nevada’s 17 counties and consolidates all the information into a single system.
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