Early, in-person voting kicks off in the Las Vegas Valley

Early, in-person voting for the June primaries kicked off Saturday at venues across the Las Vegas Valley including city halls, malls, recreation centers, libraries and air-conditioned tents.

Clark County hadn’t reported any issues as of the late afternoon.

Preliminary turnout numbers will first be available Sunday and every subsequent day of early voting, according to the county.

The process appeared to be going smoothly at locations visited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in the afternoon hours. There were no lines, and voters who walked in to vote were seen leaving a few minutes later.

Others trying to cast a ballot in-person before Election Day June 9 have until June 5 to do so.

‘It’s a beautiful thing’

Barbara Phillips voted in a tent at Blue Diamond Crossing, a south Las Vegas shopping center.

“I love getting it out of the way early,” she said.

Phillips said she spent hours looking into the candidates, and encourages family and friends to vote early.

“I do all my research and I mark my ballot,” she said.

Phillips was eager to vote in the judicial races and stressed the importance of voting in the primaries, she said. “That is where it’s all starting and if you don’t get the right candidates up there, you’re in trouble.”

For the first time this year, Clark County added a step of having voters print out their marked ballots to let them review their choices before placing them into new tabulation machines.

“It’s very nice,” Phillips said.

Basil Leaskas echoed the sentiment from outside another voting tent near Mountain’s Edge Regional Park, where he and his wife voted.

“Very professional from the beginning to the end,” he said about their experience.

Leaskas also liked that election workers asked for his ID up front.

“It’s a beautiful thing,” he said.

In a video posted to X on Saturday, Gov. Joe Lombardo stood outside a Summerlin voting location and said that he had just cast his ballot.

“Tell your friends, your family, and your coworkers to get out and VOTE,” he said in the video.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., also took to X to remind Nevadans that early voting had commenced. She included the registertovote.nv.gov website link.

Inactive voters can register on-site

Nevada offers same-day, in-person registration for inactive voters, which requires a state identification card.

Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo reminded voters that they can cast only one primary ballot.

Clark County set a 100-foot buffer at locations, where electioneering is not allowed. Signs at the locations remind voters that they can’t wear campaign merchandise.

Clark County started processing returned mail ballots earlier this week.

As of Saturday night, at least 456 were flagged for signature verification, also known as curing. At least 49 voters had cured their signatures, according to Clark County online records.

The elections department will reach out to those voters who can also check their ballot status at myballot.nv.gov.