While not the highest turnout in Douglas history, the 86.71-percent turnout for the 2020 Election is the highest in the state, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office. Lincoln County came in second with 84.86 percent. Commissioners are scheduled to canvass the vote on Monday.
Douglas County Republicans turned out for President Trump, but a comparison between the vote total reported to the Secretary of State’s Office and the county’s registration shows there wasn’t a lot of crossover.
Trump, who conducted a Sept. 12 rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport, received 21,237 votes in Douglas, only 79 more than the number of active Republican voters as of Nov. 10.
Former Vice President Joe Biden received 11,390 votes, or 33.96 percent of the county’s electorate. There are only 8,725 active registered Democrats in the county, according to the clerk’s office.
In comparison, Barack Obama received 10,671 votes in 2008, but because there were fewer overall voters, won a higher percentage.
No Democrat has won Douglas County for president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, during the depth of the Great Depression.
On Tuesday, Douglas County Superintendent of Schools Keith Lewis introduced new school board members Tony Magnotta and Doug Englekirk.
Magnotta owns a business that provides due diligence information to law firms and banks, and has coached for a number of years.
Englekirk a general contractor who has lived at Skyland since 1995, said he’d just come from pouring 36 yards of concrete.
“I look forward to working with you,” he said.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Douglas County Clerk’s Office mailed out 39,015 ballots to active voters in the county. Of those, 1,111 were returned as undeliverable.
Of the 19,074 mailed ballots returned to the Clerk-Treasurer’s Office 18,954 were accepted according to final figures issued Thursday evening.
Of those, 124 were rejected, with 91 having nonmatching signatures, 15 having no signature and 14 because they weren’t received on time. According to the clerk’s office four ballots required proof of identity were rejected when that wasn’t provided. Of the 384 mailed ballots that required someone to fix the signature, 278 were corrected and counted.
UNOFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS
President of the United States
Douglas State
Donald Trump 21,630 635,089
Joe Biden* 11,571 671,955
Representative in Congress
Mark Amodei 22,366 211,768
Patricia Ackerman 10,389 153,167
Assembly District 39
Jim Wheeler 22,224 29,498
Deborah Chang 9,957 12,910
Supreme Court Justice D
Douglas Herndon 18,100 538,136
Ozzie Fumo 7,228 428,956
Appeals Judge Dept. 3
Bonnie Bulla 10,301 482,492
Susan Bush 10,312 404,401
Douglas County Commissioner District 3
Mark Gardner 21,998
Charles Holt 9,466
District 9 Judge
Nathan Tod Young 19,820
Caren Cafferata-Jenkins 9,070
School Board Area 1
Tony Magnotta 14,013
Yvonne Wagstaff 11,665
School Board Area 3
Doug Englekirk 14,797
Larry Sidney 10,926
East Fork Fire District 1
John Bellona 14,907
Terry Faff 6,837
East Fork Fire District 5
Michael Sommers 12,726
Steven Mihelic 9,460
Gardnerville Ranchos GID
Bob McDowell 2,999
James McKalip 2,687
Darby Baligad 1,972
Indian Hills GID
Teri Gray 1,036
Dale Dunham 935
Russ Siegman 839
Anthony Rivano 612
Minden-Gardnerville Sanitation District
Barbara Smallwood 2,907
Ray Wilson 1,906
Tim Bunting 1,743
Seth Altamirano 936
Topaz Ranch Estates GID
Brandon Taylor 449
Gerald Clark 402
George Barber 377
Sharon Ferris 238
Roundhill GID
Gregg Rossi 240
Darin Smith 237
Janet Murphy 133
Michael Murphy 77
Skyland GID
Larry Sidney 134
Dana Englekirk 120
Kevin Lavo 113
Jonathan Herwig 107
Dennis Berry 104
Richard Nice 104
Mark Koffman 100
Jeffrey Wright 94
County Question 1
No 17,565
Yes 13,628
County Question 2
No 18,892
Yes 13,356
County Question 3
No 16,610
Yes 15,667
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