Voters across Clark County waited two to three hours to cast ballots on election day, with lines persisting well after polls closed at 7 p.m. County spokesperson Stephanie Wheatley said 23 polling locations still had voters in line at 9:50 p.m., a number that dropped to 11 by 10:10 p.m. Officials attributed the delays to high turnout, a two-page ballot and a new process requiring voters to make selections on an electronic machine, print a paper ballot and feed it through a tabulator.
Some of the longest waits were reported at UNLV, where voter Alicia Harris said lines reached 3½ hours Tuesday afternoon. She left after 90 minutes without moving and voted at Allegiant Stadium in about 40 minutes instead. Her partner, Shaun Harris, said most people in the UNLV line appeared to be college students, and the wait may have been prolonged by first-time voters needing provisional ballots. Alicia Harris called it "really awesome to see those students doing their civic duty."
At Ellis Elementary School in Henderson, 64-year-old Debbie Jordan waited nearly three hours but said the time passed pleasantly chatting with neighbors. "We had such a great time chit-chatting with all my neighbors," she said. "Hopefully, next year they’ll expand this location, but really, everything worked out perfectly." Paul Lee, 63, was less patient after voting at Las Vegas City Hall, joking, "Maybe they could put a couple slot machines in here. That’d be nice. This is Vegas."
The county’s live polling website showed more than 50 centers with 40- to 60-minute waits Tuesday afternoon, though reporters observed lines exceeding an hour at City Hall, Coronado High School and Green Valley High School. Katherine Teran, 26, waited about two hours at the IKEA store in the southwest valley and said this year was "a li" [sic] compared to prior elections. The Associated Press had not called any Nevada races by the Review-Journal’s print deadline.
Sources: Las Vegas Review-Journal
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