In the background, Carson City Mayor Lori Bagwell, who won reelection, listening to Clerk-Recorder Scott Hoen at the canvass of the vote Friday.
Photo by Scott Neuffer.
After the Carson City Board of Supervisors’ unanimous certification of the General Election results Friday, Mayor Lori Bagwell, who won reelection, lauded election workers and described being a candidate herself.
“Being on the other side of it, I don’t mind just admitting how difficult it is on our side, too, waiting for the ballot counts to drop,” she said, adding it was a long election season from candidate filing in March.
Clerk-Recorder Scott Hoen and Emily Toups, deputy clerk of elections, presented figures from the Nov. 5 election and highlighted voter turnout, which was 78.4 percent, or 31,149 ballots cast from 39,731 active voters.
“For as contentious of an election that it was, it went so nicely, it went so smoothly, and the voters turned out, obviously, as you can tell,” said Toups.
Hoen said partisan voter turnout was even higher.
“I did do some quick math last night,” he said. “When you look at the Ds and the R turnout (Democrat and Republican), it’s in the 86 to 84 percent area. If you look at the nonpartisan turnout, it’s in the 60 percent area.”
One thing not discussed at the canvass was the error in party affiliation in the original mail ballots that necessitated corrected ballots be sent out. Hoen told the Appeal he would release a breakdown of election costs — expected by Nov. 22 — including total election costs, state reimbursement and the cost of re-balloting.
Hoen estimated that after subtracting those who used a corrected ballot or voted in person, there were about 1,200 original ballots counted on Nov. 9, the last day mail ballots could be accepted. He maintained there were not enough original ballots to affect any of the races.
Additionally, Hoen told supervisors Friday the new polling location at the Stewart Wellness Center and Gym in the Washoe Tribe’s Stewart Community was a success in coordinating with tribal officials and seeing voters. Hoen’s canvass report shows there were 453 in-person voters at the new location on Election Day plus 72 mail ballots dropped off there.
The ballot drop box at the Tribe’s Carson Colony saw significantly less activity, with Hoen’s report showing only 34 ballots received.
Carson’s 2024 General Election by the Numbers
Total active voters as of first of November: 39,731
Ballots cast: 31,149
Total in-person voting: 14,791
Total mail and absentee ballots returned and accepted: 16,322
Rejected ballots including those with identifying marks or two ballots in one envelope: 8
“Fleeing voters” that checked in at polling locations but did not cast a ballot: 3
Ballots needing signature cures: 227
Total ballots cured: 133
Ballots not cured by the Nov. 12 deadline: 94
Applications for voting from the Carson City Jail: 13
Votes cast from the Carson City Jail (only those eligible to vote): 8
Provisional ballots cast from same-day registration: 586
Provisional ballots from same-day registration accepted: 551
Provisional ballots from same-day registration not accepted due to errors or inadequate documentation: 35
Adjudicated ballots reviewed by a bipartisan team typically when people tried to manually correct a selection: 790
NVEASE ballots (absentee ballots for military members, disabled, etc.): 141
Number of election workers: 104
Final results for Carson City can be viewed online at the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office: https://silverstateelection.nv.gov/county-results/carsoncity.shtml.