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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Voter turnout could surpass 100 percent



Secretary of State Ross Miller says it’s possible some counties could report more than 100 per­cent turnout in today’s elections.

But he said it’s not a conspir­acy. It’s a function of a poorly written state law and how it requires his office to report the voter turnout.

“Nevada Revised Statutes require the Secretary of State to report voter turnout percent­ages based on the total of active voters,” he said. “What the statute fails to address is that inactive voters are still eligible to vote and, with record turnout, we’re seeing a high number of those eligible inac­tive voters coming to the polls.”

Inactive voters are those who didn’t vote in the previous feder­al election and haven’t respond­ed to letters from their county clerk asking their status. If they show up and confirm they are still eligible, they get to vote.

With some counties predict­ing better than a 90 percent turnout, it could happen today. If it does, he said it will almost certainly be in the state’s small­er counties.

But Miller said all those peo­ple are legally entitled to vote.

“I can’t stress enough that no one who is ineligible will be allowed to cast a vote in Neva­da,” he said.


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