Week 1 of early voting is over. This is where participation is found. • Nevada Current

According to a report from the Secretary of State’s Office, more than 550,000 ballots had been accepted by the end of the first week of early voting.

This puts turnout so far at 28% of eligible registered voters, with a week of early in-person voting and Election Day remaining. Under state law, mail-in ballots can be received and counted up to four days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

More than half (56%) of voters so far used a mail-in ballot, further demonstrating the popularity of the vote by mail optionwhich Nevada implemented in 2020 as a response to covid and then made permanent in 2021.

In 2020, only 7% of voters physically cast their ballot.

In 2016, the last presidential election before the switch to universal voting by mail, 62% of turnout occurred during early voting and only 6% was by mail (also known as absentee voting). The rest of the votes were cast on election day.

As in previous elections, Democrats are showing a greater preference for voting by mail than Republicans. So far, two-thirds (66%) of Democratic turnout has been by mail, compared to 44% of Republican turnout.

In previous cycles, Republicans have cast doubt on voting by mail and encouraged in-person voting on Election Day. In the run-up to the general election, former President Donald Trump and others encourage voting early and by any available method.

More registered Republicans have voted so far than registered Democrats, according to the SOS report. Overall turnout was 40% Republican, 35% Democratic, and 25% nonpartisan or third party. How those independent voters lean is considered critical to the outcome of the presidential race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as are we like other competitive races up and down the ballot.

Turnout by county ranges from a paltry 7.7% in rural Esmeralda County, which has just 543 active registered voters, to 42% in Nye County, which has about 33,000 active registered voters.

Clark County, which has 1.4 million active registered voters, has 26% turnout so far. Washoe County, which has about 328,000 active registered voters, has a 30% turnout.

The NV SOS Office publishes participation reports daily. can be seen online here.

next week

Both candidates will return to southern Nevada on Thursday. Trump will hold a noon rally at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson. Harris’ campaign has not revealed details about where and when her rally will be, but has said she will appear with the influential Mexican rock band Maná.

manna last month removed from broadcast Websites for a song with reggaeton singer Nicky Jam after Jam endorsed Trump and appeared on stage with him at a rally in downtown Las Vegas. (At that rally, Trump appeared to mistakenly believe Jam was a woman and asked the crowd while introducing him, “Do you know Nicky? She’s hot.”)

“Maná does not work with racists,” reads a statement published in Spanish on Maná’s social networks. “For the last 30 years, Maná has supported and defended the rights of Latinos around the world. “There is no business or promotion that is worth more than the dignity of our people.”

Both presidential campaigns have been courting Latino voters.

Harris will also campaign in northern Nevada on Thursday, according to local media reports. Additional details on that rebound are not yet available.

An avalanche of substitutes is also expected in the final buildup to election day. These include the Second Gentleman David Emhoffwho will be in southern Nevada on Monday and Tuesday.

The last day for in-person early voting is Friday, November 1. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5.