Nevada Supreme Court allows early hand-counting of votes

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Nevada Supreme Court allows early hand-counting of votes

By GABE STERN
October 21, 2022

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada county can start hand-counting mail-in ballots two weeks before Election Day, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, but it won’t be allowed to livestream the tallying in order to make sure voting results aren’t accidently released.

The ruling came in response to an emergency petition filed by the ACLU of Nevada challenging Nye County’s plan to start hand-counting votes on Wednesday, which the ACLU said in its lawsuit risks public release of early voting results.

Nye County is one of the first jurisdictions nationwide to act on election conspiracies related to mistrust in voting machines.

Interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf had planned to set up a livestream of the count, which he said would enable residents to “become poll watchers at home.”

However, the court said that if observers heard the votes read aloud, the observers — who are members of the public — “are likely to learn election result information before the release of such information is statutorily authorized.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/nevada-reno-voting-elections-government-and-politics-fa2a388c7d5bb5a5b92f44f8dc7b5914

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Assume the SC there is rightwingers.

Bye Bye America.

[walkingman]

2. Elections have become a real shitshow - thanks Trump.

[Grins]

3. Not just Trump. Goes back decades. NM

[walkingman]

4. Good point - it feels like we are headed back to the 1950s.

[Grins]

5. Cook County, IL counts mail-in ballots on arrival.

To keep up with the workload.

But the tally is never revealed until the polls close on election night and the precinct numbers start rolling in.

And they will accept mail-in ballots until the close of business 14-days later as long as the ballot was mailed on or before Election Day.

And it works!

[Ms. Toad]

7. That is pretty standard.

In Ohio, the first votes released are those from early voting and absentee ballots. The machines keep a running total, and the moment the polls close the boards of elections are authorized to press the button that publishes the vote tally.

There are some states which don't allow absentee ballots to even be opened until the close of the polls. Others permit them to be opened and prepared to run through the machines - but not to start until the polls close.

[W_HAMILTON]

8. Are they hand counted...

...scanned into the machine for counting?

[Retrograde]

6. How many races are on their ballots?

Senator and congress, definitely. I don't know about governor or any local offices or issues. How are they going to deal with these multiple counts? Count all votes for one line, then repeat until they've done all of them? What's to keep the ballots from being damaged in all of this?

[Genki Hikari]

10. They'll count everything on every ballot

You touch it, you count ALL of it. That's how it always works.

They don't count only, say, the Senate choice on a ballot then set the ballot aside until time to vote for congress reps, and so forth down the line. Every race on every ballot gets counted, when the ballot is in front of whoever or whatever is doing the counting.

I can't speak for other counties, but Clark County has 23 local elections taking place, beyond the federal and state-wide races. Each will be tallied from a ballot before moving on to the next one.

Good grief, I can't believe anyone would wonder about that.

[Retrograde]

11. Thanks for the update

It still seems to me that hand-counting complex ballots opens the door for a lot of human error - even with honest counters! And when you have large counties with hundreds of thousands of ballots to count - I'm wondering how long this will take. My own county, Santa Clara, had over 700,000 ballots cast in 2020, and it's not even the most populous in California - good thing we have a 30-day cushion built into the process.

[Genki Hikari]

9. Am I the only one who saw the name "Mark Kampf"

And thought, "Mein Kampf?"