LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) — More than 13,000 people across Nevada who voted by mail need to verify their identities or their vote will not count, according to the latest data from the Nevada secretary of State’s office.
As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, the number of mail-in ballots needing signature cures was 13,317 – 2.5% of all mail-in ballots returned. Nearly 15,000 voters successfully verified their identities so far this election, data showed. About 1 in every 20 mail-in ballots has required a cure this election.
Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said the majority of the cures were coming from younger voters who cast their ballots in Clark and Washoe counties – Nevada’s two most populous counties and home to Las Vegas and Reno, respectively.
“Young voters don’t have a long history of voting, right?” Aguilar told NewsNation. “The signature that they have is the signature on their voter registration form and sometimes it’s in a digital form at the DMV. Or also it’s their paper registration or just their driver’s license. Those are their signatures and without a long history, it’s hard to compare their signatures.”