LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Clark County District Court will extend its hours of operation and assign three judges to handle any Election Day-related actions come November.
Chief Judge Jerry Wiese signed the order late last month “to ensure the fair and expeditious resolution of all election-related actions filed on Election Day,” documents said.
The three judges will handle any election matters as they come in from 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, until midnight on Nov. 6, Wiese ordered. After that, any election-related lawsuit or complaint will be randomly assigned.
Polls in Nevada closed at 7 p.m. or until the last person in line has voted. The Secretary of State’s Office does not begin posting results until all precincts are closed.
In 2022, a Clark County judge denied Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and the campaign working to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate’s request to extend voting that election night. The emergency complaint filed around 7:15 p.m. asked a judge to keep several polling locations open until 9 p.m.